City Qazi today said wearing burqas while cleaning the streets is not against the tenets of Islam, after objections were raised by a few members of the community.
Yesterday, about a dozen women wearing burqas had sweeped and removed garbage from the streets in Dhaknapurva colony of Babupurva area, taking cue from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Swacch Bharat Abhiyan'.
But some youths from the colony raised an objection to it and they took the matter to Shehar-e-Qazi Alam Raza Noori.
"A woman cleaning the streets while wearing a veil is not against the tenets of Islam. It is important to keep the surroundings clean and if a Muslim woman is doing it, it is a good deed and she should not be stopped from doing so," Alam Raza Noori said.
