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.
Every year, the date changes as it's based on the Islamic lunar calendar, which is about 11 days shorter than the Western 365-day Gregorian calendar.
The MCD team had on Thursday reached out to take action against an illegal room being built in the park of the mosque complex -- for which it also had court orders, but instead of demolishing the room, the bulldozer deployed at the site razed a different wall.
DCP (Central) Shweta Chauhan said a case was registered on June 10 under section 188 (Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of the Indian Penal Code against the protesters.
She had lodged a complaint with the Delhi Police on May 27 alleging that she has been receiving death threats and target hatred against her.
The people of the minority community, soon after the Friday prayers, had gathered on the stairs just outside the Jama Masjid, here, holding placards against the former BJP spokespersons Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal.
