Alvida Jumma prayers were offered peacefully across 629 mosques in Sambhal, including the Shahi Jama Masjid, under heightened security measures.
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00:00Alvida Juma prayers were offered in Sambhal, Shahi Jama Masjid like all other mosques across
00:06the country.
00:07But the difference between Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal and the rest of the mosques was
00:13the heavy or detailed security deployment that was done here.
00:16I'm being joined by the SP of Sambhal, KK Bishnoi.
00:20Sir, why so much of security deployment was made despite the fact that there was no sensitive
00:26or volatile situation as compared to the November violence incident that happened?
00:30So was it precautionary or what was the motive behind it?
00:33No, it's just a normal security arrangement.
00:35I don't think any extra efforts were done.
00:38We did use a drone for patrolling.
00:42But other than that, mostly the work was done by the volunteers of the Jama Masjid.
00:48And the Injamiya Committee volunteers have always been helpful on every Friday prayers
00:52and they have done their part.
00:53And I think peacefully in the whole district, the Namaz has been offered peacefully and
00:59they have gone back to their respective places.
01:01I don't think there were any extraordinary measures were put in place.
01:05But yes, precautionary measures were taken so that any untoward incident or situation
01:10arises so that we can immediately cater to that.
01:14So as we speak, you're saying across nearly 400 mosques that are operational in Sambhal,
01:20things have been peaceful on this Alvida Juma Namaz?
01:23There are 629 mosques in Sambhal and in all the places, Friday prayers have been conducted
01:28peacefully.
01:29One final question.
01:30You know, there were a lot of requests or rather speculations that there could be attempts
01:35to offer prayers on the road or open spaces.
01:38Have you been reported of anything of that sort?
01:41No, there is no untoward incident or there is no incident reported where anybody tried
01:46or attempted to offer prayers on the roads.
01:49People are very smart.
01:50They are very disciplined and they have done what was expected out of them.
01:55And we had requested early on to them to perform prayers in a disciplined manner and that's
02:01what they have done.
02:02Social media monitoring surveillance?
02:03Yes, surveillance.
02:04We have been surveilling the cyber space.
02:07So cyber volunteers, cyber commandos are there who patrol the cyber space and there is no
02:10untoward incident like that as well has been reported.
02:14Thanks a lot for speaking to us.
02:15So the Sambhal SP is saying that people of Sambhal have shown discipline and there has
02:19been no reports of untoward incidents and now the Namazis are stepping out of the Shahi
02:24Jama Masjid after offering the Alwada Juma Namaz and everything in Sambhal has been peaceful
02:31so far.
02:32With video journalist Manish Bidhuri, this is Amit Bhardwaj reporting for India Today
02:36from Sambhal.