New Delhi: The Meerut police have launched an investigation after a video showing a man offering namaz allegedly at a shopping complex in the city surfaced on social media, reported news agency PTI. Meerut Circle Officer Devesh Singh told the news agency that the vercity of the video was being ascertained. The purported video was tweeted by district convener of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) IT cell, Digvijay Singh, claiming that namaz was offered at S2S Square Complex located on Garh road.
Replying to Singh's tweet, the Meerut police said that the Nauchandi police station incharge has been asked to investigate the matter.
Nauchandi police station incharge Jitendra Kumar Singh said according to information received so far, some work was being carried out at a shop in the complex and the man might have offered prayers then, the PTI report stated.
This comes weeks after a major controversy was sparked for a similar incident that took place in Lucknow's recently inaugurated Lulu mall, forcing the police to make arrests for offering prayers in an "unathorised manner". Followign the arrests of the four accused, an Ayodhya-based seer Mahant Paramhans was also detained by the Police after he was trying to enter the mall premises.