A stone-pelting incident occurred in Bareilly’s Shamat Ganj area in Uttar Pradesh on Friday, resulting in at least one person being injured. The district magistrate stated that the police are currently investigating the matter, and they will file a First Information Report (FIR) regarding the incident.
This incident unfolded after Maulana Tauqeer Raza, the head of Ittehad-e-Millat Council in Bareilly Sharif, was detained by the police for urging people to participate in a ‘jail bharo’ (fill the jail) protest regarding the Gyanvapi issue.
Tauqeer Raza Khan had called for a ‘jail bharo andolan’ (fill the prison movement) on Thursday, encouraging his supporters to join him and get arrested. Following Tauqeer Raza’s call, a large crowd assembled in Bareilly, and the stone-pelting incident took place after Friday prayers in the Shyamganj market area.
Bareilly Stone-Pelting Incident During Maulana Tauqeer Raza Jail Bharo Protest
According to reports, the miscreants who attended Tauqeer Raza’s protest began pelting stones, resulting in injuries to several people. The police intervened later to control the situation. Tauqeer Raza’s call for protests came in response to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s remarks in the Assembly regarding Ayodhya, Kashi, and Mathura, highlighting historical injustices.
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The Gyanvapi case, concerning the Gyanvapi mosque in Kashi, is currently under the purview of the Supreme Court, along with the Mathura Krishna Janambhoomi land dispute.
A Varanasi court recently scheduled a hearing for February 15 regarding a plea filed by the Gyanvapi Masjid committee against the allowed ‘puja’ (worship) in a cellar of the mosque. This decision came after a priest was granted permission to perform prayers before the idols in the mosque’s southern cellar.
The petitioner, Shailendra Kumar Pathak, the maternal grandson of the priest Somnath Vyas, sought the right to worship the deities in the cellar, which had been closed off by authorities since 1993.
