Following complaints of "objectionable behaviour" by many members of Tablighi Jamaat -- in some instances singing obscene songs before the nursing staff -- a joint probe by Ghaziabad police chief and Additional District Magistrate has been ordered.

In a complaint, some Tablighi followers who were rounded up and taken by bus to Ghaziabad on Tuesday-Wednesday for a medical check-up after they had been to the Markaz headquarters -- said to be the new coronavirus epicentre in the national capital -- allegedly spat on police personnel and government officials.

A section of staff in Ghaziabad-based MMG Government Hospital wrote in a complaint on Wednesday to the Chief Medical Superintendent that "many Jamaat members admitted in the isolation ward of the hospital were misbehaving with the employees and the nursing staff".

The CMO also claimed that these patients were asking for cigarettes from the housekeeping staff and making vulgar signs at nurses. "In such circumstances, it is difficult to treat these patients,"