Partial shutdown in Old City on Babri demolition anniversary

A partial shutdown was observed across the Old City areas on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the demolition of Babri Masjid. Shops and commercial establishments were shut in some pockets, including Charminar, Yakutpura and Chandrayangutta, while there was a thin traffic movement in those areas.

Some shopkeepers opened their establishments later in the day while other



continued to observe a shutdown. Some locals in Yakutpura said that they observed the shutdown after Majlis Bachao Tehreek spokesperson, Amjadullah Khan, called for observing December 6 as ‘black day’.

Meanwhile, a large number of women from the Muslim community held special congregation prayers in Saidabad in view of Babri demolition anniversary on Tuesday, December 5.