Hidden under a burqa, 24 -year -old Ima Jahn is standing outside the Kotweli police station in Bareilly, taking his seven -month -old daughter on one shoulder and the other has a bag full of food. He is now here for four days. Whenever a policeman leaves for a walk, he runs towards him with the same question: “When will you leave my husband?” Jahn says that she has been asking her from Friday (26 September 2025), when 25 -year -old her husband Guddu was arrested by the Bareilly police in Uttar Pradesh. A constable removed him, saying that only his seniors can respond to his query. “Can you please let me give him some food? He is hungry,” he leaves as a constable hops on his bike.
Guddu was one of 81 people sent to jail Regarding violence after Friday’s prayer On 26 September. It was a line collapse that started on one Enlightened board which announced ‘I Love Muhammad’ During the once barwafat procession in Kanpur, about 260 km from Bareilly on 4 September.
Some people faced members of the Muslim community, saying that the board was a new element in the traditional procession. The guidelines issued by the state government have been emphasized that only traditional functions can be organized in religious processions related to festivals. No tweak is allowed to maintain law and order in the state that sees religious conflict. While cases were then resolved, they increased in a row.
On September 26, after Friday’s prayer in Bareilly, a regional political party, Tauqir Raza Khan, head of the Ittehad-e-Milat Parishad, said. Mr. Khan is from the clan of Ala Hazrat, an Islamic scholar, born in the mid -1800s and started one of the two major schools in India. The next day, Mr. Khan – who have several criminal cases against him – were arrested along with seven other people. One of his followers says, “He wanted him to present a memorandum to the authorities against injustice against Muslims.”
This was not Mr. Khan’s first run with the law. He was taken into custody in 2010 by the police during the government under the leadership of Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati for alleged violence after several people were injured during a similar procession to celebrate the festival. The police later gave him a clear chit in the case.
“We had denied permission for protest, but the followers of Ala Hazrat Dargah started gathering on the ground on the ground near the Namahala Mosque and shouted slogans. The crowd was swept away and some unidentified persons became violent after throwing stones at the police, which was said by a senior eur, a Lathi Eras, said.
The police then examined the CCTV footage of nearby shops and houses to identify the people in the crowd, who marched towards the ground. Within hours, the police raised the score of people from shops, markets and houses in Bareilly.
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Reshma says, “Policemen entered my house in search of my son at midnight. They were all men. When I questioned his entry into my house, he said that I should hand over my son to him,” Reshma says that her son is a minor and when there was a clash, she was at home.
His son sits on the floor of a dingi room at Kotwali police station without any fan or water to drink despite the oppressive heat. ,Drink tea and eat this vegetable too (Drink this tea and eat this vegetable), “A woman constable when she requested that the food she has brought has been given to her son.
Explaining this comment, Jahn says, “They feel that we will feed our men only to trap the police.” She says that the police have fled to Bareilly after measuring people to people.
The SSP claims that 16 people detained for questioning by the police were issued immediately after producing evidence of their family birth date.
The Bareilly police arrested one of the colleagues, Tenzhem, after an encounter on 30 September. Police say he set them on fire and shot him in the foot in vengeance.
One of Khan’s colleagues, a part of the property owned by Mohsin Raza, was surprised in Bhanna using bulldozers on the same day. Officials of the Bareilly Development Authority say it was an “illegal” construction. Officials say that eight more “illegal” properties have been identified for further action, all of which are from Raza and his colleagues.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is known as ‘Bulldozer Baba’ or ‘Dada’, often used as justice.
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A procession takes a turn
On 4 September, Muslims decorated a lane in Syed Nagar, Kanpur to inspect Barwafat, also known as ID-e-Milad-Nabi, a festival celebrating the birth of Prophet Muhammad. It looked like a regular decoration when a board that was Goddess with ‘I Love Muhammad’ was illuminated in the evening. Local people objected to saying that it was never done before.
11 nominated 11 nominees and 10-15 anonymous people were registered in Kanpur that after objections from the local people, the police were removed from the lane entrance and kept within the area. According to the FIR, some Muslim youths tore the poster related to Hinduism during the procession the next day. In Hindi, Cedar said, “This caused a dispute, which was immediately controlled by the police.”
The accused was booked under two sections of the Dharmika Ny. Code, which was related to promoting enmity on the basis of religion and was deliberately and malicious acts for five years in jail.
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What happened in Kanpur criticizes members of the minority community, soon with protests spreading to Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Telangana.
According to a database being compiled by the Association for Protection of Civil Rights, the UP Police has filed 29 FIRs against the scores nominated in 11 districts and the score of hundreds of anonymous people since the first week of September. Uttarakhand Police has registered two FIRs on two protests in Dehradun and Kashipur. In Gujarat, the row was registered in Godhra, Gandhinagar and Baroda. In Maharashtra, cases were registered in Baikula.
The highest number of cases were registered in Bareilly, with 10 FIRs filed against 2,000 nominated and anonymous people in two days. Arrests, details, flag march, barricades, an internet shutdown, and bulldozer action, were all seen in the city within a week.
Different types of messages
Soon after the violence in Bareilly, the Chief Minister issued a warning to those “trying to harass communal harmony” in a public speech. A parallel between Devi Kali, who killed the demon Chand and Mund, and the BJP -led government in UP, Adityanath said “anarchy would be crushed”.
Action against the miscreants will set an example for generations to come, he said that “even the imagination or dreaming of Gazwa-e-Hind (a word used by the religious raids, extremists of India) also guarantees a ticket upwards”.
Opposition leaders such as Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav and All India Majlis-e-Itihadul Muslimeen’s head Asaduddin Owasi attacked the Chief Minister, called them “pro-Hindutva” and “anti-Muslim”.
Meanwhile, BJP supporters performing Ganga Hindu ritual of worship Plancards reading ‘I Love Mahadev’ were held at Assi Ghat in Varanasi, which were similar in the design of the ‘I Love Muhammad’ board.
In Varanasi, BJP Youth Wing District President Aman Sonkar, who is communally unstable due to the line of the ongoing Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gwanwapi Mosque, placed a banner reading ‘I Love Bulldozer’ at major intersections in the city.
Words of caution
In a video message, Kalbe Javad, Shia leader and General Secretary of Publication Majlis-e-Ulama-e-HindMuslim youth told that they should not allow political parties to benefit from the suffering of their community.
He said, “This is a completely religious matter, yet some political parties are trying to use it for their objectives. We should be cautious. The parties trying to take advantage of it historically damaged Muslims,” ​​he said.
Syed Sadatullah Hussaini, president of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, a socio-religious Islamic organization, said in a message that the Muslim community should be stable, peaceful and guided by the message of patience, mercy and card of the Prophet. He called upon the government to withdraw the cases immediately, to release those detained people and restore equality, genetics and justice in governance.
Plot and general knowledge
A motorcycle mechanic, which is near the Naumahala Masjid, a site where there was violence in Bareilly on 26 September, says that the fear of arrest is fear of arrest on every Muslim in the area.
The mosque is deserted in the afternoon NamazInside, a dozen policemen sleep, while the same number of personnel guards out. A ‘I Love Muhammad’ poster hangs on top of the mosque, surrounded by shops owned by both Hindus and Muslims.
An elderly Muslim person, who runs a book shop selling religious books, says that he did not participate in Friday’s prayers on the day of violence. “I went out of the city that day and then closed my shop for three days,” they say.
In his 50s, a person, who runs a paan shop, says he avoids wearing a skull or has any indication in the shop that shows that he is a Muslim to protect his livelihood. He says that he is unable to understand why the text on the board awakened the line, he was in English. “In Islam, no one can take the name of Muhammad without adding the prefix, ‘Shanti should be on him’.”
Ram Sahni (name changed), who sells fruit juice near Kotwali police station, says, “Why can’t people understand that politicians divide and rule? In this tug of war for power, those who are crushed are regular people like me.”
He says that he has suffered a loss of more than ₹ 20,000 in three days. With the deployment of heavy police, there are barely a customer, he says.
Says Manisha, “Her shop has Swati and Manisha, college students have been worried about a project till 30 September.
Although the Internet services were restored in Bareilly on 30 September, on 2 October, the Uttar Pradesh government ordered its suspension for 48 hours to maintain law and order in view of Dasra festival.
