Individuals providing namaz at a home in Moradabad’s Dulhepur village final week.
Lucknow:
For a “mass gathering to supply namaz” at a home “with out prior permission”, a police case has been registered in opposition to 26 Muslims at Dulhepur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district.
The village doesn’t have a mosque, and a few residents have objected to gatherings for namaz, even when inside houses. Police cited “objections from neighbours” and booked the namazis underneath Indian Penal Code’s Part 505-2 — technically talking, for mischievous statements in a gathering performing spiritual worship.
“By studying the namaz in a gathering, these persons are spreading hatred and enmity amongst individuals,” says the FIR registered on a criticism by native resident Chandra Pal Singh on August 24. Sixteen of the individuals have been named, whereas 10 others stay unidentified, all reported to be locals.
Visuals of individuals praying “in giant numbers” within the compound of the home have gone viral.
There are offended reactions on social media, alleging bias and lack of logic. “I am positive if one of many neighbours had a hawan with 26 pals and kin that might be completely acceptable. It is not the ‘mass gathering’ that’s the downside; it is the providing of namaz,” tweeted Omar Abdullah, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
However police at the moment are seeking to arrest the accused. “Searches are on for many who attended the gathering,” stated district police in-charge Sandeep Kumar Meena.
Individuals objecting to namaz have made information at completely different locations in latest months. There have been offended protests by locals, led by right-wing outfits, in Gurgaon some months in the past in opposition to namaz by teams of space manufacturing facility employees. The namaz was held at open areas designated by the native administration, however that was stopped, citing visitors obstructions and regulation and order. Hindu prayers had been later held at a number of the websites as a counter.
Lately, namaz by workers at a mall in Bhopal led to some Bajrang Dal males protesting by studying the Hanuman Chalisa. An analogous incident at a mall in Lucknow passed off some weeks in the past. Each malls later banned all spiritual actions.
