The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-installed LG administration has once again placed All Parties Hurriyat Conference senior leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house arrest in Srinagar, Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, today.
The authorities placed him under house detention to prevent him from offering the Juma prayers at the historic Jamia Masjid and other religious and social activities.
Anjuman Auqaf of Jamia Masjid, Srinagar, in a statement denounced the continued illegal house detention of its head and Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Umar Farooq for the fourth consecutive Friday. It said the administration imposes arbitrary and unjustified restrictions on the religious functioning of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
The Anjuman lamented that in such bitter cold , thousands of devoted men, women, children and physically challenged persons from various parts of the valley gather at the historic Central Jamia Masjid, Srinagar, to listen to the sermon of their beloved leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. However, the authorities’ action of keeping him under house arrest at his Nigeen residence deeply hurts the sentiments of these devotees and deprives them of their religious freedoms.
The Auqaf deplored that the LG administration, through these arbitrary measures, continuously disregards and disrespects the religious sentiments and emotions of the Kashmiri people.
Such measures also amount to interference in religious affairs of Muslims which is highly condemnable, it added.
