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The All Arunachal Pradesh Masjid Welfare Committee has urged the Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) authorities to reopen the sealed mosques, maintaining that actions against unauthorised spiritual institutions should beryllium fair, transparent, and non-discriminatory crossed each faiths.
The ICR covers the State’s duplicate capitals, Itanagar and Naharlagun, and different settlements on a 30-km stretch. On June 4, the ICR medication sealed each “unauthorised” mosques wrong its jurisdiction aft serving a bid of notices since January 30, seeking documents relating to their establishment.
“The authorities are examining the legality and documentation of mosques successful the Capital Region. The aforesaid scrutiny should use to churches, gurudwaras, namghars, temples, and different spiritual structures that whitethorn beryllium functioning without implicit ineligible approvals oregon documentation,” AAPMWC subordinate Giah Limpeh Sultan told journalists successful Itanagar connected Saturday (June 6, 2026).
Resenting the “selective enforcement” against definite spiritual institutions, the committee demanded the reopening of a mosque sealed recently. It said that pursuing existing laws and regulations is the work of each spiritual organisation, irrespective of religion oregon denomination.
Mr. Sultan said that accusation obtained done the Right to Information Act indicated respective spiritual structures were operating without the requisite approvals. He named a fewer temples and a namghar (prayer hallway for radical pursuing Vaishnavism) successful Itanagar.
“The territory medication should undertake a broad survey of each spiritual institutions wrong the ICR,” helium said.
