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Meerut: In a fresh fatwa, Darul Uloom’s fatwa department has stated that “application of mehendi on women’s hands by unknown men is not accepted in the eyes of Sharia law”.Known for delivering controversial diktats, the Deoband-based Islamic seminary said, “Giving one’s hand to an unknown man for application of mehendi is un-Islamic and it doesn’t show the woman in good light. “There is a special importance of the purdah system in Islam, and if any woman allows an unknown man to touch her on the pretext of applying mehendi, then it is not right in the light of Hadees. Recently, they had even termed installation of CCTV cameras as un-Islamic. Woman must remain within purdah,” said Mufti Athar Qazmi, senior cleric at Madrasa Asharfia.Since the advent of 2018, several fatwas have been issued by the Deoband ulemas. She won a prize at the contest.After that, they issued another controversial fatwa, in which it had asked Muslim families to avoid marrying men or women working in banks as the money earned through interest is illegitimate in the eyes of Islam..