AIMIM leader held for offering namaz at metro station in Lucknow

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Uzma Praveen was booked for holding prayers at the Husain Ganj metro station in Uttar Pradesh's capital Lucknow, police said.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Central Zone, Aparna Rajat Kaushik, said that the AIMIM leader had falsely shown the place of offering prayers as Vidhan Bhawan.

“A case under IPC 153 A (promoting enmity), IPC 200 (giving false information) and IPC 283 (obstructing public way) 66 has been registered against Uzma,” a senior police official said.

In her tweet in Hindi, the AIMIM leader expressed her disappointment over the police action and said that the mountain is being turned into a molehill. She claimed that the police were following the media personnel while doing so. She further said that she followed her religion. The matter came to light earlier on Wednesday after the AIMIM leader posted a picture offering prayers on her Twitter handle.

Earlier, on August 24 last year, a large gathering of people offered namaz under Chhajlet police station limits in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. For their part, the police said there was no mosque and only two houses. Later, following a complaint, proceedings were taken against the owners of both houses.

Earlier in July 2022, an FIR was registered against six people for offering Namaz at Lulu mall in Lucknow.