Friday prayers not allowed for tenth consecutive week: Jamia Masjid management body
Srinagar, Dec 15: The management committee of the Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta here alleged that the Jammu and Kashmir administration did not allow Friday prayers for the tenth consecutive week.
Anjuman Auqaf Jamia Masjid in a statement said the authorities once again disallowed Friday prayers at the central mosque for the 10th consecutive Friday and also put Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Muhammad Umar Farooq, who delivers the Friday sermon there, under house detention.
The Anjuman said that no reason is provided by the authorities for these restrictions and curbs.
Meanwhile, the Mirwaiz condemned the repeated closure of the mosque on Fridays and his "arbitrary on-off detention", including on Fridays.
"All claims of so-called normalcy by rulers fall flat by such anti-people measures. I fail to understand why the central Jamia Masjid was being targeted again and again unless it is to cause grief to the Muslims of the valley and show them their place in Naya Kashmir," the statement said.
The Mirwaiz has said that the in-charge "rulers" should stop playing with the Muslims' religious sentiments and let them offer prayers in their mosques without hindrance.
"People's silence and endurance of brazen attacks on their religious rights should not be mistaken as their weakness to respond," he said.
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Class 12 exam paper 'leak' case: Private tutor among two held, four so far
Nagpur (PTI): A private tuition owner and his aide were arrested in connection with the suspected leak of Physics and Chemistry question papers of class 12 exams being conducted by the Maharashtra board in Nagpur, police said on Monday.
With the arrest of Mustafa Khan Munir Khan (42), who runs a teaching academy in the Mominpura area, and his aide Junaid Mohammad Abdul Javed, the number of people held so far has reached four.
Khan and Javed were remanded to police custody till February 26.
According to police, Khan allegedly shared the Chemistry paper on a WhatsApp group named "Tech 1", and Javed posted the answers. One Nishikant Mool had circulated the leaked content among students of his tuition classes.
The incident came to light on February 18 when a supervisor at St. Ursula High School examination centre spotted the paper on a student's phone.
Police said technical surveillance helped trace the accused. However, the original source of the leak remains unknown and further investigation is underway.
