Jammu & Kashmir: Anti-India slogans were raised, stones pelted at security officials at Jamia Masjid

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• Apr 11, 2022 | Dhupali Das

Along with Azadi slogans, shouts of "Nara e Taqbeer, Allahu Akbar" can be heard in Wani's video clip.

Digital Desk: On Friday, the Jamia Masjid in Sri Nagar, one of the region's largest mosques, resonated with Azadi and anti-India slogans. Reportedly, a large crowd that gathered for Friday prayers was heard chanting 'Azadi slogans' and hailing Zakir Musa, the chief of the terrorist group Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, who was killed by the Indian Army in an encounter in May 2019.

Ashraf Wani, an India Today group journalist, shared a video from the Jamia mosque in which people could be heard screaming slogans calling for India's secession.

Along with Azadi slogans, shouts of "Nara e Taqbeer, Allahu Akbar" can be heard in Wani's video clip.

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In addition to Azadi slogans, the people pelted stones outside the mosque, where Jammu and Kashmir Police and Central Reserve Police Force personnel were deployed as security measures to ensure the Valley's peace and tranquillity.

Following the protest, stones were pelted at security personnel, a rare incident after the repeal of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019, which stripped the state of its separate status and allowed for greater integration with the Indian union. Shortly after the stone-throwing began, law enforcement officers swooped in and dispersed the crowd.

Earlier this month, CRPF DG Kuldeep Singh admitted that incidents of stone-pelting had decreased since the repeal of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.

"Stone-pelting incidents are almost nil after the repeal of Article 370," he said 

On 5 August 2019, the Government of India invalidated the separate status granted to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, freeing the state from a decades-long Nehruvian blunder.

Moreover, the Modi government created two new Union Territories by dividing the state of Jammu and Kashmir into Jammu and Kashmir (with Legislature) and Ladakh (without Legislature), giving the government greater control over the former state.