Several states have warned Tablighi Jamaat members to self-declare their attendance at last month's Nizamuddin congregation or face legal action. Some states have already taken steps.Uttar Pradesh additional chief secretary Awanish Awasthi said, "Either they come forward voluntarily or the government will take action against them under the Epidemic Act."Nearly 1,500 Tablighis from UP who attended the Delhi meet have been identified and more than 1,200 of them quarantined. By Monday, 159 of them had tested positive for Covid-19 .Police in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar have taken legal action against 35 Tablighi members, including 29 foreigners, while cops in Chhattisgarh's Korba district on Monday filed an FIR against 16 members of Tablighi Jamaat.Haryana home minister Anil Vij set a deadline of April 8 for self-declaration. He said that of the 74 posi- tive patients in the state till Monday, 44 were Tablighi Jamaat members.After the Himachal Pradesh DGP's warning, 12 Tablighi members on Monday disclosed having attended the Delhi event. "From April 6 onwards, we are going to register cases under Section 307 (attempt to murder) if police catch any Tablighi member who is hiding his attendance in the Delhi Jamaat ," said Uttarakhans DG (law & order) Ashok Kumar.Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday, too, said, "We have decided that whoever comes out (of hiding) from tomorrow (Tuesday), the government will register cases against them for willful disobedience under the Disaster Management Act." At least 128 Jamaat returnees are still at large in the state, he said.Gujarat police on Monday arrested one person from Dariapur for not disclosing that he had attended the Delhi event.