Friday prayers in the Mecca Masjid were peaceful even as the place of worship saw fewer namazis and an increase in constabulary.
On Thursday Muslim religious groups, including the Jamiat-e-Ulama Telangana Andhra Pradesh, and Hyderabad parliamentarian Asaduddin Owaisi urged calm, restraint and the maintaining of peace after Friday prayers. They had also urged the public not to gather for protests and return in an orderly fashion.
Security in and around Charminar was beefed up with a Rapid Action Force platoon, and senior police officers present, and in no mood to take chances given the recent tension in the Old City following legislator now-suspended from the BJP T Raja Singh's offensive comments about Prophet Muhammad.
