Mumbai: Graveyard, Dargah trusts appeal against crowding on Shab-e-Barat
ByMohammed WajihuddinMohammed Wajihuddin / Updated: Mar 12, 2021, 18:50 IST
Mumbai:
Graveyards and
dargahs in the city have begun telling devotees not to crowd them on Shab-e-Barat, the night Muslims visit graveyards to pray for the dead.
Shab-e-Baraat is on April 12 but trustees of graveyards and mausoleums of Sufi saints are creating awareness that the curb on crowding and not more than 50 devotees at a time will be allowed to enter the
kabrastan and dargahs on the sacred night. Thursday was Shab-e-Meraj, the night when the Prophet is believed to have ascended to heaven, and people were asked to pray at home and not crowd the mosques, kabrastans and dargahs. People by and large followed the instructions.
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Gyandeo Ware is one of the three constables who ensure a decent
funeral to unclaimed bodies; in his 20-year career, he has given dignity in death to around 1 lakh bodies.
Meet
Head Constable Gyandeo Ware of
Mumbai Police, who claims to have performed last rites of nearly one lakh bodies in the past 20 years. The 52-year-old is one of the three constables whose job is to ensure a decent funeral to unidentified or
unclaimed bodies. The other two policemen currently engaged in the noble work are Vijay Pandyere and Baaz Khan.
The three have been authorised to act as caretakers of unclaimed bodies and give them a dignified cremation or burial.