Circle Officer Pandey said that police pickets have been set up in the old city areas.

Mosques In Uttar Pradesh: The Uttar Pradesh Police have covered at least two mosques in Aligarh with tarpaulin just ahead of Holi celebrations. This has been done to avoid people splashing colours on them on Holi, said the police in Aligarh on Sunday.

Circle Officer, City, Abhay Pandey while talking to reporters said that one of the mosques that has been covered thus is Halwaaiyan mosque in the Sabzi Mandi area, and the other is located at Delhi Gate adding that the decision was taken after talks with religious leaders.

Circle Officer Pandey said that a flag march was conducted in the sensitive areas with a message of peace and police pickets have been set up in the old city areas.

Meanwhile all the mosques on the route of the Ram Baraat in Bareilly and the Laat Saheb procession path in Shahjahanpur have been covered with tarpaulin and plastic sheets to prevent them from being smeared with Holi colours, which could affect communal harmony in the two Uttar Pradesh districts, authorities informed, reports indianexpress.com.

The reports further say that Senior Superintendent of Police (Bareilly) Ghule Sushil Chandrabhan led a police march along the proposed route of the Ram Baraat which will be taken out from Narsingh Temple on Sunday.

“We held a meeting with clerics in the district on Friday and they have been told that the mosques will be properly covered so that no mischievous element does anything to disturb communal harmony. All clerics expressed satisfaction with our arrangements. A posse of police personnel will accompany the yatra which, after passing through many areas in the city, will return to the Narsingh Temple,” said SSP Ghule Sushil Chandrabhan.

Holi will be celebrated across the world on March 24 and 25.

(With agency inputs)