4 held for offering namaz in private property without taking permission: Bareilly police

The constabulary enactment came aft a Hindu organisation, Hindu Jagran Manch, shared a video of the determination connected societal media.

“An FIR was registered against 7 persons, including the colony pradhan and different residents, astatine the Baheri constabulary station. We person arrested 4 people, including the colony pradhan’s member Mohammad Shahid. The lawsuit was initially filed nether conception 223 (disobedience to an bid duly promulgated by a nationalist servant) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Later, we invoked charges of breach of bid against them,” said SHO (Baheri) Sanjay Tomar.

“The spot wherever namaz was offered is owned by the colony pradhan’s family. Following constabulary action, they person locked the premises,” the SHO added.

Himanshu Patel, the Bareilly territory president of Hindu Jagran Manch’s younker helping who uploaded the video connected societal media, said 1 of his associates precocious recorded the area. The video purportedly showed a radical of radical offering namaz. “There is neither a mosque nor a temple successful the village. Residents person to question to a adjacent colony to connection prayers… I uploaded the video connected societal media and informed some the constabulary and the territory medication astir the matter,” Patel said.

The Jam Samant village’s colonisation is predominantly from the Muslim community.

Sub-Inspector Ahmed Ali, who conducted the constabulary enquiry, said that aft reviewing the video, helium visited Jam Sawant colony and recovered that a radical of radical from the Muslim assemblage had gathered wrong a walled country covered with a tin shed, wherever they offered namaz without anterior permission. “This is not a mosque,” helium clarified.

Meanwhile, constabulary forces person been deployed to forestall immoderate untoward incident.