LUCKNOW: Intensifying its crackdown on protesters who indulged in violence in different parts of state, police arrested 255 persons by Saturday afternoon for stone pelting and defying law and order restrictions while protesting alleged derogatory remarks against the Prophet in separate incidents on Friday.
In FIRs lodged in connection with these incidents, as many as over 6,000 people, including unidentified mobs, have been booked. Senior home department and police officials are keeping a close watch on such incidents as well as police action that is being initiated. At least 150 companies of PAC and another 20 companies of RAF have been deployed in sensitive areas across the state. ADG, L&O, Prashant Kumar told TOI that peace prevailed in the entire state on Saturday.
