A 10-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been constituted to probe the violence that broke out in Bareilly on Friday, September 26, following a protest linked to the “I Love Muhammad" campaign.

Police arrested eight people, including a cleric and Ittehad-e-Millat Council chief Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, accusing him of instigating the unrest.

A local court remanded Raza and the seven others to 14-day judicial custody.

“Maulana Tauqeer Raza, the main conspirator of the Bareilly unrest, along with seven mischievous elements, have been arrested, produced in court, and sent to judicial custody," District Magistrate Avinash Singh said at a joint press briefing with SSP Anurag Arya.

The clashes erupted outside a mosque in the Kotwali area after Friday prayers, when a large crowd carr

See Full Page