Jamshedpur police conducts flag march in view of Eid ul Azha, strict vigil in place

Jamshedpur, July 9: The Jamshedpur police along with Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel conducted a flag march exercise on Saturday in view of Eid ul Azha tomorrow.

The police contingent marched through various sensitive areas of Mango, Sakchi police stations this afternoon.

“During the festival there will be deployment of RAF and other outside forces. Keeping it in mind an area familiarization exercise was taken up,” said a police official.Similar march was organised around the communally sensitive areas of the city.

The District Administration has beefed up security arrangements in view of Eid-ul-Azha. A total of 110 magistrates would be deployed in the city as part of security arrangements for peaceful observance of the festival.

DC Vijaya Jadhav said that they have reviewed the security arrangements planned for the day. “In several police personnel would be deployed for peaceful observance of Eid festival and to provide adequate security to the people here,” she said. He told reporters that CRPF, RAF, policemen and home guards are also being deployed.

Pickets would be posted and round the clock patrolling done to maintain law and order, she said, adding peace committee meetings have been held with various communities, who have assured cooperation for peaceful observance of the festival.

SSP M Tamil Vanan also instructed to make effective police picketing and snap checking on the exits and entrances of sensitive parts of the city and takes important steps for police mobile, motorcycle on on-foot patrolling to keep close vigil on suspected elements.

This festival is popularly referred to as the ‘Festival of Sacrifice’ where goats and sheep are sacrificed as an offering and hence is also known as Eid al-Adha and Bakra Eid (Eid of the goat).

Muslims follow the willingness of Abraham (Ibrahim) to sacrifice his son Ishmael (Ismail) as an act of obedience to God, before God intervened into the situation and provided him with a sheep to sacrifice instead of his son.

Bakri Eid is one of the most important festivals of the Muslims when they visit their friends and families to greet each other and exchange savouries and gifts.

The faithful congregated in mosques and specially arranged ‘Idgahs’ in open places across the state for special prayers. Community leaders and religious scholars exhorted them to pledge themselves to the eternal values of total devotion to the Almighty, willingness to sacrifice, and love and compassion towards brethren.

 It is celebrated worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ismael as an act of obedience to God. The festival comes a day after pilgrims conducting Haj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, descend from Mount Arafat. It is celebrated approximately 70 days after the end of the month of Ramadan.

According to tradition, after cutting a goat or a sheep, every Muslim divides the meat into three parts. One part goes to the poor, the second to relatives and the third remains with the family. This is done to show the spirit of remembering the poor and also to include relatives in the celebration.