By Admin 
How many mosques are there in Jammu and Kashmir, where do they get the money from, where does that money go, who takes care of those mosques, what is their ideology, what is their relation with any other country in the world. These are some such basic questions, regarding which the Jammu and Kashmir Police has started a survey of the entire mosques there. The objective is clear that Jammu and Kashmir Police should have even the smallest data of every mosque in the state, but the question is why? After all, this situation came because Jammu and Kashmir Police has to know everything about every mosque. Has the police launched such a campaign for the first time or has such a survey been conducted earlier also. After all, what does the central government want to achieve through this survey?
The wires of the blast that took place near the Red Fort in Delhi in November 2024 were also found connected to a mosque in Jammu and Kashmir. This was a module of Jaish-e-Mohammed, which operated from a mosque in the Kashmir Valley. Since this revelation, Jammu and Kashmir Police was keeping an eye on every mosque in the state. Sometimes formally and sometimes informally, the police was collecting information related to its mosques, but now the police has issued a four-page form and has given it to every mosque committee of the state. In this, one page is related to the mosque and the remaining three pages are related to the people of the mosque committee.
Police wants to know the answers to these questions on the front page
- What is the capacity of the mosque, what is its cost, what is its monthly expenditure, where does that money come from?
- What is the account number of the mosque?
- Does the mosque have any other land or any other property?
- If there is land, then whose land is it, whether it belongs to the state government, Waqf, ownership or co-ownership?
- How many floors does the mosque have, what is its area?
- What is the ideology of the mosque? Is he Deobandi, Barelvi, Hanafi or Ahl-e-Hadith?
- Who is the Imam of the mosque, who is the Muezzin, who is the Khateeb and who is the Baitul Maal. Who are included in the management committee?
The Imam of a mosque is the person who leads namaz in the mosque. Khateeb is the person who leads Friday prayers and recites Takreer. Muezzin is the person who calls the worshipers during namaz. Bait-ul-Maal is the person who looks after the money spent on the welfare works related to the mosque. Out of the four pages of the police, three pages are for collecting information about these people. The police want to know that
- What is the mobile number of the people associated with the mosque like Imam, Muezzin, Khatib and Bait-ul-Maal?
- What is the model number and IMEI number of the handset they use?
- What are the details of the social media handles of the people associated with the mosque. What is mail id? How far is your education?
- His passport number, his complete details
- What is their debit card and credit card number and its complete details?
- Complete details of his voter ID card, driving license and Aadhar-PAN card.
- What is his ration card number, its complete details?
- Complete information about Imam, Muezzin, Khatib and family of Bait Ul Mal. Who is there in the house? Whose relatives live where? If you are abroad, where are you and what are you doing?
- Complete information about foreign travel of people who are associated with the mosque. Which country did you go to, where did you go, why did you go, when did you go?
- All the people associated with the mosque, whether they are Imam, Muezzin, Khateeb or Bait ul Maal or anyone else, everyone will have to tell the source of their income, how much money they earn in a month, where they earn it from, where they spend it and how much property they have, if there is land, then what is its estimated value?
That means Jammu and Kashmir Police needs every small and big information in writing about every person associated with the mosque. Because of this, now people associated with the mosque are also seeing it as interference in religious freedom. While the police officials are avoiding saying anything in this matter, the people who are affected by this survey are also not ready to open their mouths.