Srinagar: Authorities here have allowed Mirwaiz Umar Farooq to travel to Delhi for a “personal” visit.
“Mirwaz-e-Kashmir Mohammad Umar Farooq was allowed by the state authorities to travel to New Delhi yesterday (Monday). Mirwaiz had conveyed the personal nature of his visit after which the authorities allowed him,” Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid, the management body of the 14th-century mosque in Srinagar, said in a statement on Tuesday.
It claimed that despite his release from house detention in September last year, Mirwaiz has been repeatedly detained at his residence at Nigeen, especially on Fridays.
He has not been allowed to visit the Jama Masjid, where he delivers the Friday sermon, since the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out on October 07 last year, the mosque management body said.
“Mirwaiz will be back (in Kashmir) in a couple of weeks,” the statement added.
