Saharanpur: Saharanpur police on Thursday prevented Lok Sabha MP Chandrashekhar Azad from travelling to Bareilly to meet families of victims of violence, officials said.

Violent clashes had erupted in Bareilly on September 26 when a crowd of over 2,000 people, which had gathered outside a mosque in the Kotwali area after Friday prayers to protest the cancellation of a proposed protest over the ‘I Love Muhammad’ poster row, resorted to stone-pelting, causing injuries to police personnel.

According to Saharanpur Additional SP (Rural) Sagar Jain, Azad arrived at his residence in Harijan Colony, Chhutmalpur, late Wednesday night. The police reportedly requested him not to travel to Bareilly.

Sources said that upon receiving information about the Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) chief’s arriva

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