Srinagar: The management committee of Srinagar’s Jama Masjid today said that the administration did not allow Friday prayers for the tenth consecutive week.
Anjuman Auqaf Jama 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 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, 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.
