SRINAGAR:The Jumat-ul-Vida (last Friday of Ramadan) congregational prayers at Kashmir’s grand mosque – Jamia Masjid in Srinagar – has been disallowed by the authorities on Friday.
Witnesses said that the mosque was closed for worshippers while authorities prevented the mosque’s managing body from making preparations for Jumat-ul-Vida prayers on Friday morning.
Meanwhile, Mirwaiz Kashmir Umar Farooq was also put under house arrest on Friday morning and no one was allowed to come in or go out of the residence.
Security personnel also stopped media persons from entering Mirwaiz’s residence in Nigeen locality of Srinagar after he called a press conference on Friday morning.
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