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Bareilly (UP): Clashes broke out between locals and police outside a mosque in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly after Friday prayers on Friday after several protestors gathered there in support of the “I Love Muhammad” campaign on the call of a local cleric and Ittehad-e-Millat Council chief Maulana Tauqeer Raza.
Police said large crowds gathered outside the cleric’s residence and near the mosque, both in the Kotwali area, after Friday prayers, with people expressing their anger over the last-minute suspension of the protest due to the denial of permission by the local authorities.
Visuals on social media and TV news channels showed locals clashing with the police, armed with batons, even as senior officers reached the spot to