Srinagar, Jan. 15 -- Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday criticised the police's exercise of profiling the mosques and imams in Kashmir, calling it an "anti-Muslim" trend.

The former J&K chief minister said that police performa seeking names, photos, Aadhaar cards, bank details of imams, religious teachers or caretakers of mosques was aimed to criminalise the religious places of Muslims.

"Like an overground worker is harassed and asked to provide every detail in a police station, including name, photo, mobile number, bank account, similarly a mosque is now being made a crime scene. It is as if it is not a mosque but a place where a crime has happened where you ask a moulvi or imam to provide his details ...