J&K policemen asked to avoid Eid prayers in public places
Jammu and Kashmir police has been advised to offer prayers in mosques in district police lines or protected mosques after DSP Mohammad Ayub Pandith was lynched
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police has asked its personnel to avoid Eid prayers in public places in the wake of mob lynching of a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Mohammad Ayub Pandith outside the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar.
Police personnel have been advised to offer prayers in mosques in district police lines or protected mosques. The advisory has been marked to all police stations, all wings of Jammu and Kashmir police, the Army’s Chinar Corps, Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border security Force (BSF) and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).
“You are advised to instruct the field and subordinate formations that they shall not offer Eid prayers in isolated or general mosques or eidgahs," an advisory issued from police control room (PCR) on behalf of inspector general of police, Kashmir, to all police stations across the Valley read.
It said all police personnel shall offer Eid prayers in mosques in district police lines (DPL) Srinagar or PCR Kashmir. “In other districts also, the Eid prayers shall be offered in DPL mosques or protected mosques where the safety of your personnel is ensured," the advisory read.
Asked about the advisory, director general of police S.P. Vaid said, “It is good to take precautions". “They (police personnel) are my men, I will advise them. They are my children, so we will advise them to take precautions," he said.
The advisory comes in the wake of mob lynching of DSP Mohammad Ayub Pandith outside the historic Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta area of the city on Thursday during Shab-e-Qadar prayers.
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