Hyderabad: In view of Muharram to be observed on July 29, police commissioner C.V. Anand held a coordination meeting with Shia community members at Salar Jung Museum and took their opinions on the security, traffic and other arrangements.
Anand said that state ministers had held a meeting on the arrangements and added that the police had been making all arrangements.
He also apprised the community about the government orders to provide an elephant for the procession and urged them to take measures for the rest and safety of the animal and ensure there was a perimeter maintained around the elephant at all times. He said the police would hold a dry run ahead of the July 29 observance.
“As this is a mourning procession to express solidarity and a time to remember the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussein let us do the matam with our hearts and set the differences aside,'' Anand said.
Thousands of Shia Muslims will take part in the mourning procession, a 400-year-old tradition, mark the martyrdom of Imam Hussain. The procession traditionally starts from Bibi ka Alam, Dabeerpura, and goes past Charminar, Gulzar Houz, Purani Haveli and Darulshifa before concluding at Chaderghat.
