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Police unit basal defender adjacent the Shahi Jama Masjid successful Sambhal connected Monday. (Express photograph by Gajendra Yadav)
The constabulary successful Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal are readying to enactment up posters with photographs of much than 100 protesters who were allegedly progressive successful firing shots and pelting stones during the unit that broke retired successful the municipality connected November 24 aft a court-ordered survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid. Four radical were killed and respective policemen were injured successful the clashes.
“No innocents volition beryllium persecuted but those whom we person identified done video footage of the drone cameras and the available CCTV footage of the country that time volition look strict punitive action. We person sought assistance from our cyber compartment sleuths to place those progressive successful the incident. Their posters with photographs volition beryllium enactment up astatine main crossings and assistance has been sought from section radical to assistance constabulary successful getting those whom we person identified done assorted sources arrested,” Krishna Kumar Bishnoi, Superintendent of Police (SP), Sambhal, said.
Three days aft the clashes, the municipality was dilatory limping backmost to normalcy connected Wednesday with schools and colleges opening. Several shops had opened connected Tuesday. Students and customers, however, person stayed away, sources said. Several houses successful the vicinity of the mosque person locks connected their doors and their occupants person shifted to different places successful municipality oregon to relatives’ homes successful adjacent districts, sources added.
While the section constabulary conducted a emblem march connected the streets to instil information among locals, the net remained suspended connected Wednesday arsenic a precautionary measure.
Meanwhile, the household members of those who died during the unit lodged First Information Reports (FIRs) astatine Sambhal Kotwali and Nakhasa constabulary stations precocious Tuesday evening claiming that their sons died successful constabulary firing.
“The FIRs person been registered but I person appealed to radical to travel retired with grounds (of constabulary firing). We volition surely instrumentality action. Those who died fell unfortunate to mob unit arsenic we person postmortem reports to corroborate our assertion that nary died of constabulary firing,” SP Bishnoi said.
A full of 8 FIRs person been lodged against six named and astir 2,500 unidentified people. The constabulary person already booked Ziaur Rahman Barq, the Samajwadi Party MP from Sambhal, and Suhel Iqbal, the lad of Samajwadi Party MLA Nawab Iqbal Mohammed, for provoking the mob unit connected Sunday.
A clergyman and six others had filed a civilian suit claiming that a temple erstwhile stood astatine the tract of the Shahi Jama Masjid and that it was demolished successful the 16th century. Subsequently, the archetypal court-ordered survey of the mosque was conducted connected November 19. Violence broke retired connected Sunday erstwhile a court-appointed advocator commissioner and six members of his squad entered the mosque for a 2nd survey.
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