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GUWAHATI
The section authorities successful Arunachal Pradesh sealed unauthorised mosques crossed the Itanagar Capital Region connected Thursday (June 4, 2026), much than 3 months aft serving the archetypal announcement to those operating these spiritual structures.
In an authoritative missive to the State’s Principal Secretary (Home), Capital Deputy Commissioner Toko Babu said the contented of unauthorised cognition of “Jama Masjids/mosques” wrong the Itanagar Capital Region was taken up aft the Arunachal Pradesh Indigenous Youth Organisation submitted a memorandum connected January 13.
The Itanagar Capital Region covers a 30-km agelong from Banderdewa, a large introduction constituent connected the Arunachal Pradesh-Assam border, to Itanagar, the State’s capital.
Mr Babu said that the Itanagar Assistant Commissioner initiated verification of the ineligible presumption of the spiritual institutions acrophobic aft receiving the memorandum. The office-bearers and spiritual functionaries of these institutions were directed to “produce documents relating to registration, onshore ownership, gathering permissions, and different statutory clearances required for the lawful constitution and operation” of specified structures.
He said that the masjid authorities were ordered connected January 30 to taxable supporting documents wrong a stipulated period. The mosque functionaries failed to furnish specified documents.
Another announcement was served to these functionaries connected May 28, asking them to get registrations, gathering permits, improvement permissions, and different statutory clearances. They were besides ordered to halt each ongoing operation and suspend spiritual activities wrong the premises until they complied with the directions.
“The acrophobic institutions failed to comply with the notice. Subsequently the unauthorised mosques were sealed arsenic per the timeframe mentioned successful the notices, successful the beingness of constabulary personnel, pursuing owed process of law,” Assistant Commissioner Tamo Dada said.
The officials did not specify however galore mosques and associated spiritual structures were sealed.
