Hyderabad, July 23: Asr prayers could not be offered at Syed Ali mosque of Goulipura due to miscreancy of municipal officials. Though the said mosque is located in a non Muslim locality yet the Asr prayer is offered regularly in it. The muazzin comes from Vattepally. Yesterday as the muazzin came to the mosque he saw that a garbage bin had been kept in front of the main gate of the mosque through a crane. As a result the Asr prayers could not be offered. When the police was informed the police officials told that this is the Municipal matter and the police can do nothing about it.
The non Muslims of the surrounding area also expressed regrets on the incident.
It must be recalled that on March 29, 2010 some miscreants had burnt Syed Ali mosque the FIR no of the case was 47/2010. The mosque had been whitewashed few days ago in the wake of Ramadan.
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