UP cleric Tauqeer Raza, whose 'I love Mohammad' campaign triggered tension, detained
Bareilly/IBNS: Tauqeer Raza, a local cleric in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly, who gave a call for protest with the "I love Mohammad" campaign causing tension in the city was detained on Saturday, media reports said.
The chief of Ittehad-e-Millat Council is currently under interrogation.
According to reports, a large number of people had gathered close to Bareilly's Islamia ground following Friday's prayer, over a call by a cleric to raise voices and submit a memorandum in connection with an FIR lodged in Kanpur after a tent with an 'I Love Muhammad' poster was removed earlier this month.
The crowd allegedly raised objectionable slogans and pelted stones at the police, causing tension in the area.
The police launched a lathi charge to control the situation, reported NDTV.
Top officials are monitoring the situation and have directed authorities in Bareilly to take stern action against those disrupting normalcy in Bareilly, the Indian news channel reported.
According to reports, the 'I Love Muhammad' controversy erupted on September 4 during a Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi procession in Kanpur.
A tent with the poster was put in the way of the procession.
Kanpur police registered cases against 24 people on September 9, citing the removal of the traditional tent and placing it at a new site, NDTV reported.
The police said the FIR was launched against the practice of installing the tent on the road and not targeting the poster.
IBNS
Senior Staff Reporter at Northeast Herald, covering news from Tripura and Northeast India.
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