Srinagar, Apr 9: Police on Saturday said it has arrested 13 persons for “anti-national and provocative sloganeering” inside Jamia Masjid Srinagar after Friday congregational prayers.
A spokesman of Srinagar Police said that after the culmination of the Friday prayers in which around 24,000 worshippers participated, “about a dozen persons started anti-national and provocative sloganeering for while, this was joined by a couple of others as well, while most of the gathering remained aloof”.
“There was also altercation between the persons indulging in sloganeering and the volunteers of intezamia committee of Jamia masjid who tried to stop such sloganeering and hooliganism,” he said.
