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Ban on offering prayers at public places in Noida sparks controversy

  •   Tue, Dec 25 2018 04:58:59 PM

Noida, Dec 25 (IANS): An order issued by the police in Noida asking mostly multi-national companies to bar their employees from offering prayers in open public spaces in Sector 58, sparked controversy on Tuesday.

The notice issued specifically warned that the firms would be held responsible for any breach of this directive.

Although Senior Superintendent of Police Ajay Pal clarified that the notice was not for any "particular religion", it was widely believed that the notice pointed to the namaz offered by Muslims in open public spaces.

An official confirmed that at least a dozen companies in Sector 58 of Noida have been served the notice by the concerned police station. 
  

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  • SMR, Karkala

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    In India cow has gone from 'Mata' to 'Menace'. Farmers can’t keep them, traders don’t want to buy them, and gaushalas are full. The result: Havoc on farms and roads.
    India’s Sacred Cow Now Threatens an $83 Billion Dairy Industry. affected. Deprived of the option of turning their spent milkers into hamburgers, the farmers who make up India’s 5.3 trillion rupee dairy industry have little incentive to expand their herds, which threatens government plans to expand the milk supply. Prohibitions on cattle slaughter deprive farmers of more than 250 billion rupees of annual income collectively and lead to 20 million abandoned cows a year.
    The problem is that cities are expanding & permission is not easily given to build mosques these days.
    Even rulers in princely states freely gave land to all communities. Today, the situation is such that locals oppose, administration hinders, governments stop. In Mumbai, they once didn't give permission to build top floors in mosque & used to say Muslims pray on roads.
    The matter should be resolved through Haryana Waqf Board rather than. Freedom of religion in India is a fundamental right guaranteed by Article 25-28 of the Constitution of India.
    If Haryana BJP government Muslims to stop prayers, then it should also misuse government properties for Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh shakha training. The government properties should be only used for government purposes and no festivity should be allowed.
    If fundamental rights of Muslims denied then cow which worshipped Mata should also be taken care with the same respect.
    Jai Hind

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  • j.anata, Mangaluru / Bengaluru

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    Good decision, applaud

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  • Lilygrace D Silva, Mumbai

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    Before about 4 1/2 years, prayers were said near the mosque. Suddenly banning them in saying prayers is not right. Every religion has a right to practice their religious right as long as they do no harm. Why these people interfere in the religious practice? If this is the case, then during certain festivals,roads are blocked with trucks and people dancing on the road, these should be banned right. Yet we say nothing and let them practice their way as long as they do no harm.

    Instead of banning, give them space to use for prayers. Please do not take away the rights to pray. Let us live as one big family with peace.

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  • mahesh, mangalore

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    They can use the mosque

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  • Rational thinker, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    India is fast becoming a police state.
    I didn't know police in India such vast powers.

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  • SMS, Kundapura

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    If this is the case, then Diwali crackers too to be bursted in side their houses.??? Am I right.?

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  • mahesh, mangalore

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    Does diwali happen every week?

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  • Syed, Mangalore

    Wed, Dec 26 2018

    Aane kaddaroo Kalla.....adike kaddaroo. Kaalla .....go back to school to learn some thing more

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, Bahrain

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    If BJP again comes to power in 2019 they will ban Namaaz in mosques too..

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  • Rathan, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    Ppl like you want to put oil to fire. What is wrong in the notice issued by the police Dept.? Why you want to link BJP to this order. BJP cane to piwer in 2014 itself

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, Bahrain

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    Rotten,
    Your yogi govt is supporting cows, not namaaz in mosques..

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  • Syed, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    Along with such ROTTEN ideas. better to ban all religious functions / processions from public roads and public places

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  • Deepak, Mang

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    Other religions dont come to public road every week to show off their religion. Even when they come to road they allow vehicle to pass on one side and allow emergency services to pass. As we have seen even if there is space available inside they prefer to stand in road blocking general public.

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  • Syed, Mangalore

    Wed, Dec 26 2018

    Deepak.....no need to talk like saint or rogi
    If you do not want to see prayers in public....then allow the public to build prayer halls in private properties....why permissions are not given to build prayer halls in private properties...?

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  • Observer, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    SC has already given verdict on mosque which will not be remained integral part for muslims to attend prayers and now this.
    It is indeed a unfair attitude towards muslim community which I giess will be grabbed international attention someday.

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  • Mohammed, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    Looks good decision but this decision must implement to all religious and don't target single community. like any religious activity not allowed in road or highway or market or general public place. This country belongs to every Indian.

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  • deepak, mangalore

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    This order is for everyone.

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  • David Pais, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    dis vajapayee did not heed 2 da intelligence info of pakistan occupied kargil & did not act immediately. as a result scores of indian soldiers died from da negligence of vajpayee. what any statue will fetch 2 da general public????????? coffins were purchased & bjp pocketed coffins commissions.

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  • mahesh, mangalore

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    He was any day better than the gandhy's.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    Yesterday 12 Christians were beaten up in Kholapur for attending Sunday Mass ...

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  • D.Shetty, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    Good decision and such rules to be implemented across India... pray in stipulated place not every public place..its total nuisance for general public ... seen blocking road on Friday and disturbing public movement like someone entering private property ....

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  • Ismail, Moodbidri

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    Yes. It should be applied to all communities. Government should give permission to build their religious places in their own property. If you have your private property, nobody should object. I have never heard that any Muslim or Christian have objected to build religious places.

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  • Surendra Poojari, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    D. Shetty..what about those gudi's found at each road? Why we need to allow them. And when the question of road widening comes, these gudi's are kept intact and some one else's land is used. Why we should have kolas or yakshaghanas in open places? If anything is banned, then ban for all and don't direct one religion.

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  • mahesh, mangalore

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    Sikulars will jump now.
    No Muslim nor a Hindu can use a public place to pray on a regular basis.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    Including lighting Wood & Firecrackers ...

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  • Ummar, Santhekatte

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    @ Mahesh ,
    Then there should be no procession of immersing statues. Rules means for all. Do u agree?

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  • mahesh, mangalore

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    Did you forget to read the word 'regular'?

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  • Syed, Mangalore

    Wed, Dec 26 2018

    Mahesh..... read the comments of Rauf given below

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  • Rauf, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 25 2018

    How about RSS doing camps daily in public places ????

    Why double standards...

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