Forward of its T20 conflict with India in Gwalior, the Bangladesh cricket squad didn’t go to town’s Moti Masjid on Friday and as an alternative, supplied prayers at their resort, a police official stated on Saturday. “We had made elaborate safety preparations round Moti Masjid however the Bangladesh staff didn’t flip up. No organisation had given any name to disrupt their go to,” Gwalior Zone Inspector Common Arvind Saxena instructed PTI over the telephone. The mosque within the metropolis’s Phoolbagh space is about 3 km from the resort the place the guests have been put up.
Safety has been stepped up within the metropolis amid a name for a ‘Gwalior bandh’ on match day by right-wing outfits in protest in opposition to alleged atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh for the reason that fall of the Sheikh Hasina authorities there in August.
“The choice to skip the mosque go to might need been taken on the staff’s administration stage,” he stated.
The official confirmed that the ‘Shahar Qazi’ (metropolis’s prime Muslim cleric) reached the resort and led the Bangladeshi cricketers in providing ‘Namaz-e-Juma’ (Friday prayer) between 1 pm and a couple of.30 pm.
The official stated they’d made elaborate safety preparations outdoors the mosque the place a number of mediapersons have been additionally ready.
The gap between the resort and the Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Stadium, the place the Bangladesh staff has been practising since October 3, is about 23 km and the gamers are shifting freely as per their schedule amid safety cowl.
“Offering safety to the visiting staff over simply 3 km was by no means a problem from our facet,” the official stated.
Already, over 2,500 police personnel have been deployed for Sunday’s India-Bangladesh T20I in Gwalior, he stated.
On Sunday, cops might be on the streets from 2 pm. They are going to be on responsibility until spectators attain house after the sport is over, police stated.
After prohibitory orders have been invoked two days in the past, police are additionally maintaining a tally of social media for inflammatory materials, officers stated.
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