Mangalore, August 11: In a first-of-its-kind exercise, Mangalore Police Commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh convened an exclusive meeting of Muslim leaders, office-bearers of Muslim association to discuss the problems faced by the community members.
The meeting was convened also in the backdrop of the upcoming Eidul Fitr and Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations. The police chiefs discussed the ways and means to maintain peace and harmony in the areas under the commissionerate and work closely to thwart any effort by the anti-social elements to disturb peace.
The participants at the meeting demanded that besides the leaders of the masjid, church and temple, the office-bearers of various organization should be invited for the peace committee meetings in each police station.
The police department was urged to keep a close eye on the wordings of the banner that are put up during the festival time. A couple of speakers felt that the police officers look at the religion of the culprit while dealing with them. The tendency to berate Muslims as terrorists is also on the rise, one speaker felt.
Some of the demands put forth at the meeting are follows: protection to people performing Taravih namaz, harassment to Muslim applicants at the passport office, end to atrocities on street vendors.
Muslim representative from 17 stations in the commissionerate jurisdiction attended the meeting. N.S. Kareem, Mohammed Mustafa, Mohammed, Mohammed Mukkacheri, Rafiq Amblamogaru, Haji Hameed Kandak, Ali Hasan, Farooq Bengre, C. Ahmed Jamal, Mohammed Ismail, Yakub Suratkal, Abdul Wahab Bikarnakatte expressed their views.
Presiding over the meeting Commissioner Singh said, it was the responsibility of the people of all the religions to ensure that there was a peaceful atmosphere in Mangalore in the build up to the festival season.
He said similar meetings involving Hindu and Christian leaders, representatives will be conducted in the next two days.
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