Main Muslim clerics in Kanpur have opposed the FIRs registered towards a whole lot of folks for offering prayers on roads on the final Friday of Ramzan and Eid.
Calling the police motion unjustifiable, the clerics, who demanded that the instances be withdrawn, questioned if the federal government or the district administration had determined that no non secular occasion be held in public.
Citing their displeasure, the clerics, who met the Kanpur police commissioner just lately to debate the problem, mentioned in a memorandum, “All of us are responsible of the crime. Arrest not solely the 1,700 folks booked, however hundreds of others additionally for the crimes talked about within the FIRs.”
The delegation which met the police chief included Shahr Qazi (Bareli) Mushtaq Mushahidi, Shahr Qazi (Deobandi) Qari Mamoor Ahmed and a dozen different clerics underneath the banner of Ulema Ahle Sunnat Mushwarati Board.
Final week, the Kanpur police had lodged three FIRs in Bajaria, Jajmau and Babupurwa towards over 1,700 folks for offering prayers on roads and defying the IPC part 144 that was in drive.
The costs had been IPC sections 186 (obstructing a public servant in discharging duties), 188 (disobedience to an order duly promulgated by a public servant), 283 (inflicting hazard, obstruction or harm to any individual in any public method), 341 (wrongful restraint, and 353 (legal drive to discourage a public servant from discharging his responsibility).
“Such an incident has by no means occurred throughout festivals which might be noticed with peace and concord. The FIRs are aimed toward tearing aside the social material. Both they be withdrawn or hundreds of us who prayed that day will supply their arrest,” Mushahidi mentioned.
The Kanpur police, nevertheless, had been but to make a remark on the assembly and calls for put forth by the clerics earlier than the police commissioner.