FIR was lodged as there were flags of Iran-backed outfit during procession, says cops. Srinagar MP, PDP functionaries slam arrests made under stringent law.
From the time of before Aurangzeb and EIC to the Dogras and now. Shias have been sidelined and systematically targeted. This procession is a step towards coexistence.
Permission was given to Shia mourners after 5 weeks of deliberations & security review, several conditions, and assurances by community leaders that event would be held peacefully.
Srinagar officials claim at least 200-250 Shia mourners, looking to take out Muharram processions, were left injured. Police says they fired pellet guns in response to stone-pelting.
Supreme Court was hearing a PIL by Syed Kalbe Jawad, a Shia cleric from Lucknow, who sought permission for Muharram processions with 5 participants in view of Covid-19.
Members of Dawoodi Bohra community are not going to mosques during the Ashara Mubaraka period observed in Muharram month, and are praying at home due to Covid pandemic.
Srinagar residents plan processions on Muharram despite security clampdown, say it's unfair to stop followers from observing festival that holds deep meaning for them.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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