A Muslim man was arrested and sent to jail on Saturday for offering ‘azan’ at a 250-year-old mosque in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli.
“The accused, identified as Umar Qureshi, is a resident of Jalalabad. He was booked under IPC section 505 (2) (promoting enmity) and IT Act following a complaint by Neeraj Kumar, a representative of a village head in Gausgarh,” Times of India quoted Shamli SP, Abhishek as saying.
The police claimed that Qureshi, in his early 20s, went to the site on Friday and tried to perform prayers, thereby violating a 1940 British order.
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