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This is what we believe seem to have happened with regard to statements of the Kazis:

Chief Government Kazi released a statement on November 9th - stating Crescent was sighted in Malegaon on Sunday (November 7) and hence Eid will be on November 17th. None of the papers reported this. When Kayalpatnam.com approached Amjad Alim (Tuticorin District Kazi) on 10th morning, he gave the statement based on oral information he had. He seemed to have assumed - being a Tamil Nadu Government Kazi - Chief Kazi would have relied on sighting from only Tamil Nadu.

Since TNTJ statement had specifically said no sighting was done in Tamil Nadu on Sunday, Kayalpatnam.com approached the office of Chief Kazi and obtained the original press release - which mentioned sighting in Malegaon. The office also orally confirmed no sighting was done in Tamil Nadu that day and hence sighting from Malegaon (in Maharastra) was taken into account. However the statement itself didn't contain the word Maharastra or that Malegaon is in a different state.

This (Chief Kazi's statement) was published in Kayalpatnam.com and Amjad Alim was informed (since this was contradicting his earlier statement to us). He has since given this clarifying statement.