By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: Amidst the wave of raids at madrasas, mosques and Muslim localities in the wake of terrorist bombings across the country and recently one in New Delhi, the Delhi Wakf Board has decided to compile all necessary information about Imams, Muazzins and students attached with board-run madrasas and mosques in the national capital.
The decision has been taken in view of investigations by security and intelligence agencies after every terrorist bombing. The programme is aimed at giving protection to these people and also to help agencies if needed.
Delhi Wakf Board office
Asked if the step has been taken at government order, Chaudhry Mateen Ahmad, chairman of the Delhi Wakf Board, told TwoCircles.net: “We are doing it at our own and the government has not ordered us to do it. We are doing it because sometimes people attached with madrasas and mosques get caught in trouble, their information with the board will help them come out of the trouble.”
There are 215 mosques in the national capital managed by the board.
Profile of every new imam, muazzin and student will be maintained. The information about those who are already working is with the board, he said.
It has been seen that immediately after a terrorist attack or bombing, imams, and students and teachers of madrasas come under police surveillance. Many are arrested and interrogated. Many were arrested after Jaipur serial blasts in May this year.
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