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The Hindu
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National
Omar Rashid

Protests against Prophet remarks | In U.P., BJP members seek ‘revenge by bulldozer’

Javed Mohammad Bharatiya Janata Party Prayagraj Ajay Kumar Police Prashant Kumar Afreen Fatima SQR Ilyas Prashant Bhushan Swatantra Dev Singh

A Prayagraj-based political activist Javed Mohammad was among 255 persons arrested across eight districts in Uttar Pradesh in connection with the stone-pelting and illegal gathering during protests after Friday prayers against the comments made on Prophet Muhammed by two BJP leaders recently.

The number of persons arrested till 8 p.m. on Saturday stood at 255 across eight districts, said police. The highest number of arrests were in Prayagraj (68), followed by Saharanpur (64), Hathras (50), Ambedkar Nagar (28), Moradabad (27), Firozabad (13), Aligarh (3) and Jalaun ( 2). 

As the State government intensified its crackdown against the Muslim protestors on Saturday, several members of the ruling BJP, including its state president Swatantra Dev Singh, endorsed using bulldozers to demolish the properties of the accused persons.

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