Srinagar, April 5 -- The administration have placed the prominent religious leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house arrest and closed the historic Jamia Masjid ahead of Juma-ul-Vida, the last Friday of Ramadan.

The Anjuman Auqaf Jamia Masjid, the mosque's managing body in Nowhatta, stated that the district magistrate and police officials visited on Friday morning, instructing them to lock the gates as 'Jumat-ul-Vida prayers would not be permitted.'(KNS)

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