Lucknow: Muslim cleric and the chief of Ittehad-e-Millat Council Maulana Touqir Raza was on Saturday arrested along with eight others in connection with Friday’s violence over \"I love Mohammed\" posters, in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly town even as Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said his government would teach a lesson to the trouble mongers in the ‘language they understand’.

Raza and other accused persons were later produced before a local court which remanded them to 14-days judicial custody.

Police sources said that ten cases were registered in different police stations in connection with the violence and Raza was charged with rioting, inciting violence among others. Internet services were suspended for 48 hours after the cleric’s arrest.

Raza had given the call for protest against the

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