HT Correspondent
Bahraich, March 13
PROTESTS BY the employees of Syed Salar Masood Ghazi’s Dargah in protest against sealing of the capital room at the shrine by the district administration continued for the second day on Sunday.
The Dargah’s capital room had been sealed by the district administration on a complaint lodged by a former official of the shrine on Friday.
Teje Khan, a former official of the Dargah, had alleged in a written application that officials of the Waqf and Dargah had picked locks of the shrine’s capital room and illegally counted the money which had been donated by devotees during the last year’s fair. In this connection, police registered a case against the OSD (officer on special duty) of Dargah including the superintendent (Waqf) and the assistant secretary (Waqf). Ever since, the Dargah employees have been protesting against the administrative move. Due to the ongoing strike, schools, hospital and other institutions run by the Dargah have been closed.
They also gave a memorandum to the DM demanding immediate opening of Dargah’s capital room and the arrest of Teje Khan who, according to them, misguided the administration by making false complaint.