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 late-night patrolling was conducted in the Jama Masjid area of old Delhi on Thursday ahead of the Muharram procession, a senior police officer said.
“Friday afternoon Prayers on first Friday of the holy month of Ramzan concluded peacefully in all the mosques of Srinagar,” police tweeted.
Raj Niwas said Saxena spoke to Imam Bukhari and requested him to rescind the order.
Taking suo moto cognizance of media reports on the restriction on entry of women in the mosque, the Delhi Commission for Women has sought an action taken report (ATR) by 28 November from Shahi Imam.
The announcement says that in order for women to gain access to Jama Masjid complex, they need to be accompanied by a male member.
