Clerics meet DGP Sulkhan Singh over Bakarid prep

LUCKNOW: Ahead of Eid-ulAzha, a section of Muslim clergy on Tuesday said the community is filled with anxiety over the matter of fulfilling their religious duty of qurbani (sacrifice) on the festival. The concern, said clerics, arose from the number incidents of cattle vigilantes taking law in their hands, primarily against the minority community , across the country in the recent past.
To be assured there is law and order around the festival, a delegation met DGP Sulkhan Singh in Lucknow on Tuesday . Led by Imam of Eidgah, Maulana Khalid Rasheed Farangi Mahali, the delegation demanded there should neither be obstruction in the movement of sacrificial animals for the festival, nor any lapse of law and order. Eid-ul-Azha will be celebrated on Saturday and the sacrifice ritual will continue to be observed for the next two days. “We met the DGP with a memorandum of demands for tight security around the festival because the community is worried in the light of incidents of lawlessness in the recent past,“ said Maulana Khalid, who is also chairperson of Islamic Centre of India.