A 38-year-old person was held for making threat calls to two iconic monuments, the Red Fort and Jama Masjid in the Old Delhi area, Police said on Thursday.
Two of the iconic monuments of Delhi, Red Fort and Jama Masjid, on Thursday, received a bomb threat which turned out to be a hoax, the police said.
The chief cleric of Kashmir and Hurriyat leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, expressed anguish on the restrictions on offering prayers at Jama Masjid and Eidgah.
The grand mosque in the city's Nowhatta locality was closed for prayers on the auspicious occasion of Shab-e-Qadr on Thursday night as well.
Court Commissioner Ramesh Singh Raghav on Thursday submitted a 40-page survey report in a sealed envelope to the Chandausi District Court on the Jama Masjid-Harihar Temple dispute in Sambhal.
A three-member judicial commission constituted to investigate theviolence over the survey of Jama Masjid in the Sambhal districtvisited the violence-affected areas on Sunday.
The controversy leading to survey of Shahi Jama Masjid and violence on Sunday in which 4 youths were killed, may see an end after the intervention of the Supreme Court on Friday.
The town remained tense for the third consecutive day on Wednesday when the police released posters of 100 stone pelters with stones in their hands and their faces covered.
Three youths were killed in the violence that broke out during a court survey of Jama Masjid in Sambhal on Sunday.
A major violence erupted in the city on Sunday morning as officials began the second phase of the Shahi Jama Masjid survey.
