SRINAGAR: Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid has announced that its president and Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir, Mohammad Umar Farooq, has once again been placed under house arrest at his residence Friday morning, the Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar said.
In a statement, the Auqaf said that authorities have prevented him from addressing the faithful at Jama Masjid in Srinagar and from offering obligatory Friday prayers.
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Mirwaiz was kept under house arrest for more than four years to prevent him from leading protests against the 2019 scrapping of the special status to Jammu and Kashmir. Although he was released in September, he had since occasionally been put under house detention as the Gaza war broke out
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Mirwaiz, who is the Valley’s chief cleric, was put under house arrest on August 4, 2019, a day before the Centre abrogated Jammu and Kashmir’s special status.