Hurriyat chairman and Valley’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was disallowed to attend the Friday prayers at the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, just a day after J&K Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Manoj Sinha stated that his administration was mulling to allow the Mirwaiz to visit the mosque under a security cover. Meanwhile, the Mirwaiz is likely to take a legal route to “understand his status”.
“The Mirwaiz was again disallowed from conducting Majlis-e-Waz-o-Tablig (sermon) and offering obligatory Friday prayers for the consecutive 208th Friday at the Jama Masjid today,” a spokesman of the Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid, a caretaker body, said.
The Auqaf spokesman said it was expecting the release of the Mirwaiz following the L-G’s interview to a news channel. In the interview to The Lallantop, the L-G said he has made up his mind and was considering allowing the Mirwaiz to join Friday prayers under a security cover.
