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Over 200 pilgrims from Madhya Pradesh deprived of Haj due to negligence

Despite several couples applying on the same date with same cover, in many cases visa of wives were issued but not of their husbands saying that their passports were received late.

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Updated : Nov 07, 2010, 02:31 PM IST

The All India Muslim Educational Society (AIMES) today alleged that over 200 Haj pilgrims from Madhya Pradesh had been deprived of the holy pilgrimage this year due to negligence of the Central Haj Committee and the passport office in Bhopal.

"Though these persons had been chosen on the basis of draw of lots and had applied in time for passports, they could not get visa, mandatory for the pilgrimage," AIMES' Madhya Pradesh unit president Mohammad Ibrahim Qureshi told PTI here today.

He said while the passport authorities did inordinate delay in issuing passports to the applicants, the Central Haj Committee failed to forward the documents of the would be pilgrims to the Saudi Arabia Embassy.

Despite several couples applying on the same date with same cover, in many cases visa of wives were issued but not of their husbands saying that their passports were received late, Qureshi said.

Alleging corruption, Qureshi said that in a planned manner, the quota of the state was allotted to people, who were not entitled to it.

He claimed that when the applicants approached the chief executive officer of Central Haj Committee (Mumbai) for submitting their passports directly, the officials misbehaved with them there.

Qureshi said he had written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and external affairs ministry's Haj Cell in-charge for intervening in the matter and demanded for making special arrangement for their visa and flight for the Haj.

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