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Security was strengthened successful respective delicate areas successful Bareilly up of the evening prayers connected Friday (October 3, 2025), a week aft the metropolis witnessed violence pursuing the congregational prayers.
The District Magistrate and the Senior Superintendent of Police were seen patrolling the metropolis with dense unit since greeting portion clerics from the Ala Hazrat Dargah appealed to residents to support peace.
Internet restrictions remained successful spot successful Bareilly and precise fewer radical were seen successful markets.
On September 26, locals and constabulary clashed successful the bosom of the metropolis pursuing Friday prayers aft the cancellation of a projected protestation implicit the “I Love Muhammad” posters. Several radical were injured successful the clashes.
#WATCH | Uttar Pradesh: Heavy constabulary deployment continues successful Bareilly metropolis pursuing 26 September's protests, chromatic pelting and unit by a radical of radical who gathered extracurricular Ala Hazrat Dargah & IMC main Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan's house, holding 'I Love Mohammad' placards.… pic.twitter.com/3eHnBa1BxA
— ANI (@ANI) October 3, 2025Police person lodged 10 FIRs and booked hundreds, mostly unidentified suspects, for the violence. So far, implicit 70 people, including cleric Tauqeer Raza Khan, his aides and immoderate relatives, person been arrested.
District Magistrate Avnish Singh said elder officers from constabulary and medication spent Thursday (October 2, 2025) nighttime touring delicate areas and interacting with section residents, who assured that communal harmony would beryllium maintained.
“We are inactive carrying retired ft patrols. The arrangements are foolproof,” Mr. Singh said.
Senior Superintendent of Police Anurag Arya said the metropolis has been divided into 4 ace zones and 8 zones for tighter surveillance, with 4 IPS officers brought successful from different districts for peculiar monitoring.
Heavy constabulary and paramilitary deployment was disposable extracurricular large mosques including Nau Mahal Masjid, Ala Hazrat Dargah, Azam Nagar Masjid successful the Kotwali area, and Baradari mosque. Drone cameras are besides being utilized to show the situation.
Markets specified arsenic Roadways Bazaar, Kutubkhana, Shivaji Marg, Alamgirganj, Sarafa, Sahmatganj and Qila Bazaar opened connected Friday but the accustomed hustle and bustle was missing.
Shopkeepers remained cautious, acceptable to unopen down instantly successful lawsuit of immoderate disturbance. Internet services remained suspended.
Sajjadanashin of Ala Hazrat Dargah, Badrush Shariah Mufti Ahsan Miyan, urged Muslims to connection Friday prayers peacefully and instrumentality home.
“Do not wage attraction to rumours. Peace indispensable beryllium preserved astatine each costs,” helium said successful an appeal.
The cleric announced that the yearly ‘Julus-e-Gausia’, traditionally taken retired to people the Urs of Hazrat Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani, volition not beryllium held this twelvemonth successful presumption of the existent situation.
Instead, a little programme volition beryllium held astatine 2 p.m. connected Saturday (October 4, 2025) astatine Sailani Raza Chowk, wherever clerics volition code the gathering, followed by peculiar prayers and ‘langar’ distribution.
Mufti Ahsan Miyan and Anjuman president Haji Shariq Noori said the determination applies lone for this twelvemonth and the procession volition resume with afloat grandeur adjacent year.
