The prayer site is one of several designated by the Gurugram administration for Muslims to offer the “jumma” prayers. The group also chanted “Jai Shri Ram”-a slogan that several fringe Hindu organisations are seen using increasingly as a weapon of intimidation-even as police stood nearby in large numbers to prevent escalation. People flocked to the prayer site from Mohammadpur Jharsa, Khandsa, Narsinghpur, and Khatola villages and held a havan they proclaimed was for the “martyrs of 26/11” on the 13th anniversary of the Mumbai attacks. The protest site this time was near the Sector 37 police station. Muslims offer namaz at an open ground while Hindus perform havan at the same place nearby in Gurugram on Friday. Disruptions to public Namaz offerings continued on Friday when over 100 people raised Hindu slogans, conducted a prayer of their own, and chanted the Hanuman Chalisa a few metres from where some Muslims were offering their Friday prayers.
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