Noida, December 25: Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday has issued a notice asking companies to ensure that no religious activities are carried out in the parks in Noida's Sector-58. According to the notice, the company would be held responsible if an employee is found offering namaz in public parks. They are asked to offer Friday prayers in idgahs, mosques, or inside the company premises. Man Offers Namaz Outside Yogi Adityanath's Secretariat, Arrested For Causing Traffic Jam.
The copy of the Police notice was shared by news agency ANI, which also tweeted pictures of the notice. Bajrang Dal Women Perform 'Aarti' in Taj Mahal to Protest Namaz at Historic Site.
Have a look at the pictures below in the tweet:
Noida: Police have issued a notice asking companies to ensure that no religious activities are carried out in a park in Sec-58 by their employees, that includes Friday namaz.Notice also states that companies will be held responsible if employees are found offering namaz in parks. pic.twitter.com/MY9PqzuDQk
— ANI (@ANI) December 25, 2018
The police notice states: “We want to inform you that there is no permission from the administration to conduct any kind of religious activity including Namaz offered on Friday in the Authority park in Sector 58. It has been often seen that the Muslim workers of your company assemble in the park to offer Namaz and I, the SHO, have told the group to not hold prayers in the park. Also, their plea to the city magistrate has not received any permission to do so.”
“Thus, it is expected from you that you at your level inform your Muslim employees to not come to the park to offer Namaz. If employees of your company come to the park, it will be assumed that you have not informed your employees and your company will be held liable.”
This comes after, in the last few months, a larger number of people gather in the parks and public places, some of them are not even employees. Hence police have taken it as a cautionary step to maintain communal harmony. According to some reports, companies in Sector 58, seeks to meet Noida police in order to get clarity into the issue.
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