India has filed charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the chief of the country's Tableeghi Jamaat for holding a gathering last month that authorities say led to a big jump in coronavirus infections.

Police initially filed a case against Muhammad Saad Kandhalvi, the chief of the centre, for violating a ban on big gatherings but had now invoked the law against culpable homicide, a police spokesman said.

A spokesman for the Tableeghi Jamaat group, Mujeebur Rehman, declined to comment saying they had not confirmed reports about the new charges.

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