Uttar Pradesh: Whitewashing of Sambhal’s Jama Masjid Commences After Allahabad HC Directive | India Information
The work of whitewashing Jama Masjid in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal has begun after the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom granted permission on March 12.
Chatting with ANI, the contractor assigned by the ASI to whitewash the Sambhal Jama Masjid, acknowledged that the work is more likely to be accomplished inside per week and a complete of eight folks have been engaged on it.
“A complete of eight persons are at work. The work of whitewashing has been began… We’ll end the work inside per week. We now have been solely directed to whitewash the mosque. We now have been assigned by the ASI,” he mentioned.
Whereas listening to the case of the Sambhal Jama Masjid on March 12, the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom gave permission to whitewash the mosque from the surface and likewise beautify it with lights with out tampering with something. The following listening to within the case is on April 8.
In the meantime, safety was heightened within the Shahi Jama Masjid space of Sambhal after the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom directed a three-member committee to supervise the mosque’s portray forward of Ramzan.
Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal mandated a panel consisting of officers from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), a scientific knowledgeable, and an area administration consultant to make sure the work was performed with out inflicting structural injury to the mosque.
Sambhal ASP Shrish Chandra informed ANI that heavy safety preparations have been put in place across the website. “Tight safety preparations have been made across the disputed website. An enough police power has been deployed… Peace shall be maintained… Surveillance is being performed by way of CCTV and drones,” he mentioned.
Earlier in February, the Uttar Pradesh police’s SIT filed a chargesheet of over 4,000 pages in six of the 12 circumstances within the November 24 Sambhal violence that erupted in the course of the ASI’s examination of the Mughal-era mosque. The violence resulted within the deaths of 4 people and accidents to a number of others, together with officers and locals.
Based on the cost sheet, 80 arrests have been made, and 79 are nonetheless pending. There are 159 whole accused within the case. The cost sheet additionally talked about that the weapons recovered from the location of violence and different locations had been manufactured in the UK, USA, Germany, and Czechoslovakia.
