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Tensions mounted successful immoderate villages of Aligarh territory successful Uttar Pradesh connected Saturday (October 25, 2025) aft unidentified miscreants wrote spiritual slogans similar “I Love Muhammad” connected the walls of 4 temples successful the intervening night, prompting constabulary involution and deployment of dense unit to power protestors who alleged attempts were being made to disturb communal harmony.
Slogans were written successful temples astatine 4 antithetic locations successful Bhagwanpur and Bulaqigarh villages successful the territory and the constabulary promptly removed them to support bid and forestall immoderate disturbance to instrumentality and order. However, the protestors demanded contiguous enactment against the culprits. Activists of the Karni Sena reached Bhagwanpur and Bulaqigarh villages demanding enactment against culprits.
‘Going done CCTV footage’
The constabulary registered a ailment against 7 radical nether Sections 299 (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage spiritual feelings of immoderate people by insulting its religion oregon spiritual beliefs) and 351 (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS) astatine Lodha constabulary presumption successful Aligarh. Forensic teams of constabulary are scrutinising CCTV footage from the surrounding areas to place the culprits.
“On receiving accusation astir spiritual slogans being written connected the temples, myself on with the section constabulary teams inspected each the temples of Bulaqigarh and Bhagwanpur villages. The spiritual slogans written connected the 4 temples person been removed. We talked with villagers, asking them to support bid and cooperate with the police,” said Neeraj Kumar Jaduan, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Aligarh.
He added that the constabulary are investigating each aspects and angles successful the matter. “An earlier quality successful the colony has besides travel to light. A thorough probe is being conducted connected each aspects. A lawsuit is being registered successful the matter. Orders person been fixed to instrumentality strict punitive enactment against the accused progressive successful the incident. There is bid astatine the spot and successful the area,” said the SSP.
Opposition criticism
The Opposition deed retired astatine the authorities for failing to forestall communal flare-ups and aiding anti-social elements with unnecessary issues to polarise the societal environment. “Law and bid information has wholly collapsed successful Uttar Pradesh. Every day, we perceive incidents of atrocities connected communal radical and flare-ups, which tin polarise the society. The ruling BJP has helped the anti-social elements and miscreants by creating a divisive situation successful the state. We request from the medication and instrumentality enforcement agencies to instrumentality each indispensable measures for stopping immoderate breach of law,” said Ajay Rai, U.P. Congress president.
Bareilly witnessed unit connected September 26 implicit the “I Love Muhammad” posters enactment aft an Islamic cleric and main of the Ittehad-e-Millat Council Tauqeer Raza Khan announced a sit-in protestation successful effect to alleged instances of derogatory remarks against the Prophet successful antithetic parts of the country, including Shahjahanpur. Besides, a contention besides erupted implicit the posters, during a Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi procession successful Kanpur, erstwhile the posters resulted successful Kanpur constabulary registering cases against 24 people, amid objections from right-wing Hindu groups implicit a “deviation from tradition”.
