Mystery over fire incident at the Sufi shrine

The incident of the fire that devastated nearly 250-year-old Sufi shrine in Srinagar on Monday, initially perceived as a result of an electrical short, is becoming an intriguing mystery that police are trying to discover.
Local Police team of Special Investigations (SIT) is investigating the incident which was widely mourned in Jammu and Kashmir, and beyond and, in fact, triggered violent protests in the capital of Srinagar, the main parts of which were under curfew nonstop for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday. In addition, the Valley remains predominantly closed in mourning.

Officials here said that the SIT is looking at all angles, in particular, including the possibility that an act of fire ..People living in the neighborhood of the sanctuary and some other witnesses have told police that the night before the devastating fire broke out a group of preachers, all of which carry-green turbans had come to sanctuary.

He reportedly got into an argument with the local faithful about an issue related to a tradition associated with the chapel built in honor and memory of the 11th century saint Syed Sunni Sheikh Abd al-Qadir Jeelani who is buried in Baghdad, Iraq.According to them, the group served dinner in a private house nearby and returned to the hermitage to spend the night there.

Shortly after dawn prayers, the visitors left the premises in a hurry. It was an hour or so after they had realized that the fire was simultaneously in three places in the shrine complex that is being claimed by some witnesses."There was no electricity there at the time," the chief Syed Khalid Hussein custody has claimed, ruling out the possibility of an electrical short.The SIT is working hard to figure out who the visitors, who had invited them, I had to meet them and where did they go after spending the night in the sanctuary.

It is based on statements made by the locals and other witnesses that the police registered FIR in police station Khanyar in various sections of the law also refers to Section 480 of the Criminal Procedure Code which refers to "damage by fire or explosives in a building, etc ".

While the main sanctuary, an architectural marvel, adjacent old mosque and a couple of other structures were destroyed completely, the newly built mosque (Masjid-e-Jadeed) was totally damaged.