Srinagar, Aug 7 (PTI) Kashmir’s Chief Preacher Mirwaiz Umar Farooq claimed on Friday that he was placed under house arrest and prevented from offering Friday prayers at the Jamia Masjid here.
“Another Friday, placed under house arrest and prevented from going to Jama Masjid to offer obligatory prayers and deliver the sermon,” Farooq said in a post on X.
He said while the authorities gave no reason, “as usual”, the timing of house arrest, coming soon after Mutahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU) raised the legitimate concern over the sale of pork in Kashmir, is telling.
“Such high-handed measures only reinforce the shrinking space and the reprisal that follows for raising public or religious concerns of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Silencing people’s voices through arrests and bans will neither address concerns nor prevent us from raising them,” he said.
The MMU — an amalgam of several religious bodies in Jammu and Kashmir, on Thursday expressed outrage over the alleged sale of pork products on a quick-commerce platform in the valley and asked the company to remove them immediately.
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