Citing LG's order, Delhi Police force mosques from calling out Azan, video viral
New Delhi: In a video that is going viral on social media platform two personnel of the Delhi Police are being seen forcing the Mosque staff from calling out Azan in the Mosque adding that the Lieutenant Governor (LG) has issued an order against calling of Azan due in the wake of the country-wide lockdown due to the spread of coronavirus.
According to the lockdown regulations across the country, the Muazzin (One who gives call for prayer from Mosque) can give Azan and the Imam along with mosque staff can offer prayers at the Mosque. However, visiting of general public to the mosque and offering prayers is restricted.
The said video is reportedly shot under Prem Nagar Police Station limits wherein the police personnel are seen asking the residents and mosque staff not to give Azan in mosque citing orders of Delhi’s LG, the video is tweeted by a leading media house ‘The Milli Gazette’ on its twitter handle.
In the video a few women residents of the area can also be heard countering the claims of the police adding that no such order from the LG was brought into their notice by any media or other sources. However when the women asked the police personnel to exhibit the copy of LG’s order, the two police personnel heckled the women asking them not to argue with them. The cops then asked the women to visit the police station to check the copy of LG’s order.
Another tweet by ‘The Milli Gazette’ confirmed that the Delhi Minority Commission has written to Delhi Police in this regard but also added that they didn’t get any response from Delhi Police as yet. The tweet further added that similar reports and complaints were coming from many other mosques of Delhi and outside Delhi that police is forcing them to stop Azan. It also suggested that these problems have mostly been reported from areas where Muslim population is small in numbers.
Delhi Police (Thana Prem Nagar) claims that @LtGovDelhi has ordered to ban Azaan in Mosques. @DelhiPolice @DCPNWestDelhi please show copy of LG's the order.
— Milli Gazette (@milligazette) April 23, 2020
PS: Salute to these brave women, Masha Allah. pic.twitter.com/9D4aS9Sqbx
News has been coming in from many other Mosques of Delhi and outside Delhi that police is forcing them to stop azaan. Delhi Minorities Commission has written to Delhi Police about this. But DMC says no reply received.
— Milli Gazette (@milligazette) April 23, 2020
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LPG cylinder booking aids in nabbing absconding ex-Army Capt convicted for wife's murder
Bhopal: A former Captain of the Indian Army who had been absconding for four years after being convicted for murder of his wife was arrested in Pandhuma district, with an LPG cylinder booking helping the police nab him.
According to a report by Deccan Herald, the arrested Army Captain, Sandeep Tomar, was produced in court and has been sent to judicial custody.
Tomar had reportedly been convicted for murder of his wife Shveta Singh in Abohar in 2013. While he had defended himself saying Shveta had committed suicide, a detailed probe revealed the incident to be a planned murder. In 2014, the trial court had convicted and awarded him life imprisonment. In addition, the Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld the verdict in 2022. Also, although Tomar had been granted bail in 2019, he did not surrender after the HC in 2022 upheld the trial court sentence.
Police sources have said that the Army Captain, however, was absconding since then, repeatedly changing his location as well as identity to evade arrest.
Fazilka Police reportedly got a major breakthrough went they traced a bank account linked to Tomar's PAN, which he had used to book an LPG cylinder. Using this lead, they tracked Tomar's location to Madhya Pradesh and arrested him in Pandhuma district.
An official of the probe team said that Tomar's bank statement too revealed that he was getting LPG cylinder refill from an agency in Pandhura.
The gas agency is said to have been contacted and the delivery address was taken.
