By way of PTI
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: Protests broke out in some states on Friday together with outdoor Delhi’s Jama Masjid over the debatable remarks on Prophet Mohammad via two now-suspended BJP functionaries with demonstrators in Jharkhand injuring a couple of policemen whilst government in Jammu imposed a curfew in few spaces and portions of Kashmir seen a shutdown.
In Delhi, the protesters massed outdoor the historical Jama Masjid after the Friday prayers not easy the arrest of suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma.
Probably the most other folks, who accrued at the steps of the mosque, carried placards and shouted slogans in opposition to Sharma and Naveen Jindal, former head of the Delhi BJP’s media unit.
Senior police officers mentioned the protest used to be held peacefully and lasted for 15 to twenty mins.
The protesters had been later dispersed from the realm.
Some policemen had been injured whilst looking to keep watch over demonstrators close to Hanuman Temple positioned on Ranchi’s Major Highway.
Police fired in air and resorted to baton fee to keep watch over the protesters who spilled out at the street after the Friday prayers and pelted stones and shouted slogans.
Police officers mentioned the protests had been proceeding since morning and collected pace post-Friday prayers.
Many retail outlets and institutions stored their shutters down in protest in opposition to the contorversial remarks.
Stress fixed in Jammu’s Bhaderwah and a few spaces of Kishtwar prompting government to impose curfew whilst portions of Kashmir seen a shutdown.
Web products and services had been snapped within the Bhaderwah and Kishtwar cities and Srinagar town of Kashmir as a precautionary measure.
Cell Web used to be additionally suspended in portions of Kashmir, officers mentioned.
Sporadic incidents of stone-pelting had been reported in Bhaderwah the town.
Some other folks, violating restrictions, got here out at the streets and threw stones at safety forces whilst elevating slogans.
In Srinagar, protests had been held at Lal Chowk, Batamaloo, Tengpora and different puts with the demonstrators protecting placards.
Protests additionally broke out at a number of puts in Uttar Pradesh with sloganeering happening in Saharanpur, Moradabad, Rampur and Lucknow.
Within the Atala house of Prayagraj, other folks raised slogans and pelted stones after the Friday prayers ended.
Participants of the Muslim neighborhood staged protests in different towns of Maharashtra even though no untoward incident used to be reported from anyplace.
In Panvel town in neighbouring Navi Mumbai, a minimum of 3,000 protesters together with round 1,000 girls took out a protest march, searching for the arrest of Sharma and Jindal.
A delegation submitted a memorandum to Panvel tehsildar and the protest used to be over peacefully via 4 pm, mentioned a neighborhood police reputable.
A protest used to be additionally held at Shivaji Chowk in Vashi, the place a delegation submitted their calls for to the Vashi Police Station.
Identical protest gatherings or marches had been held in Thane, Aurangabad, Solapur, Nandurbar, Parbhani, Beed, Latur, Bhandara, Chandrapur and Pune districts.
In the meantime, a criticism used to be filed at a court docket in Muzaffarpur in Bihar in opposition to Sharma, Jindal and non secular chief Swami Yati Narsinghanand via a social activist in opposition to their inflammatory statements.
The BJP on Sunday suspended Sharma and Jindal for his or her derogatory feedback at the Prophet when they stoked a furore together with within the Arab global.
