Agra, April 25, 2022 (PPI-OT):Police in Agra city of Uttar Pradesh registered an FIR against dozens of Muslims for offering taravih in the BJP-led Indian state as Hindu extremist groups backed by police and other law enforcement agencies are out to blatantly target Muslims in the ongoing communal violence across the country.
According to Kashmir Media Service, SSP Agra Sudheer Kumar Singh told reporters that the FIR had been registered against the people for organising the namaz of taravih.
The ‘Taravih, conducted at night in Ramazan, was held at Imli Wali Masjid in Agra city, the Indian police said. “An investigation has been launched into the matter and we will take action accordingly,” Singh said.
MM Gate Police Station SHO Awadhesh Kumar Awasthi said that an FIR was registered in the matter at the MM Gate Police Station.
“An FIR has been lodged against Sayyad Irfan, Haseen, and Shami Aghai and 150 others who offered ‘taravih ‘outside Imli wali masjid,” he told the media.
The organisers of the namaz denied the allegation and said they had followed the terms and conditions. They also added that no traffic was blocked and they had been following this tradition for the past 40 years.
It is worth mentioning here that anti-Muslims violence has become a daily occurrence in India since Modi became PM in 2014.
Latest incidents of anti-Muslim violence occurred during the Hindu festival of Ram Navami. Numerous Muslim homes, businesses were torched and destroyed across India by organized Hindu mobs during Ram Navami festival.
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