Days after Markaz event, Delhi's Nizamuddin dargah turns into a fortress

Just a couple of days ago a team of doctors geared up in personal protective equipment and a battery of CRPF jawans were escorted into the back alleys of the dargah.

The historic site of the Nizamuddin dargah resembles a fortress these days. Days after the Markaz mosque, which became Delhi’s epicentre of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), was evacuated and sanitised, an eerie silence hangs over the area, with armed men wearing protective masks dotting the perimeter and barricades all over.

All entry and exit points of the dargah leading up to the basti have been sealed. The tent pitched by a team of doctors outside the Markaz mosque — to test people at the site where a religious meeting was held last month and multiple persons who attended the meeting