Tight security in Nagpur ahead of Friday prayers after recent violence

Nagpur authorities have implemented tight security measures for the Friday prayers, following the mob violence and arson that occurred on March 17.

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00:00Ahead of the Friday prayers this afternoon in Nagpur where there had been remember previously

00:10mob violence and arson, tight security arrangements have been put in place in Nagpur and also

00:17because remember this is no ordinary Friday prayers, it's also the Alvida Jamaiki Namaz

00:21as it is called.

00:22The state reserve police force personnel have been deployed around the mosque premises so

00:26that there are no communal tensions, all is peaceful for the prayers that will be done

00:33by the afternoon we are told.

00:35Violence started remember on 17th March, now that happened after the prayers, it happened

00:39in the evening about 6pm and that led to mob violence, arson, over Hindu protests on one

00:47side and the film Chhawa.

00:49So to ensure nothing of that sort happens this time, deployment of the Maharashtra police,

00:55Nagpur police of course, there in right outside the mosque premises, let's listen and take

01:00a look at this report.

01:55Remember this is the same area, the same city where the massive violence had been reported

02:15for hours and to ensure that neither the curfew nor the situation of that kind rises again,

02:20heavy deployment.