Bombay HC permits Muharram procession with conditions

August 17, 2021 18:15

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday permitted procession and rituals to be taken out by the Shia Muslim community for Muharram, but with certain conditions in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A division bench of Justices K K Tated and P K Chavan said in addition to compliance of COVID-19 protocols, the procession, scheduled to be held for three hours on August 20, will have to be limited to seven trucks with 15 persons in each vehicle. The court further stated that only people who have taken both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and have completed 14 days since the last dose, will be permitted on the trucks.

"Five Taziyas will be allowed to be taken. Of 105 persons, only 25 will be allowed to go inside the cemetery,' the court said. The order was passed on a petition filed by city-based NGO All India Idara Tahfaz-e-Hussainiyat that sought permission from the court to take out processions and perform rituals during Muharram, as the Maharashtra government has relaxed the conditions imposed in the city. The petitioner sought permission for 1,000 people to participate in the procession from August 18 to 20 for two hours each day. -- PTI

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