Bareilly
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UP: Village with no mosque, temple entangled in communal tension
Bareilly: Mohammadganj village in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, has neither a temple nor a mosque due to a pact dating back to a decades-old dispute over religious practices. The village has been known…
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UP: 12 held for offering namaz in empty house ‘without permission’
Bareilly: Police have detained 12 people in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district for allegedly offering prayer (namaz) at an empty house “without permission”, officials said on Sunday, January 18. A…
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UP: 16-year-old Dalit boy kidnapped, assaulted by five men
Bareilly: A 16-year-old Dalit boy was allegedly kidnapped, stripped, and brutally assaulted by five men in the Cantt police station area here, police said on Friday, January 2. Police said the assault…
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Right-wing workers storm birthday party claiming ‘love jihad’ in Bareilly
Chaos erupted during a birthday celebration after right-wing workers gatecrashed the party and allegedly assaulted two Muslim attendants, making claims of ‘love jihad’ in Uttar Pradesh‘s Bareilly district on December 27. The…
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Bareilly violence: Mob attacked police, raised beheading slogans, says chargesheet
Bareilly (UP): A mob attacked police teams and raised slogans of “sar tan se juda” (beheading) on the directions of cleric Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan during the September 26 violence in Bareilly,…
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Bajrang Dal hold protest against Christmas event outside Bareilly police station
Bareilly: Bajrang Dal leaders on Thursday staged a protest outside the Bareilly city police station, accusing organisers of a Christmas event of “objectionable” portrayal of Hindu temples and their customs. The protest…
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Bajrang Dal, VHP recite Hanuman Chalisa outside church in Bareilly on Christmas eve
As the world celebrates Christmas Eve on December 24, members of Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) decided to recite Hanuman Chalisa in front of Bishop Conrad School, a prominent church…
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Bareilly Violence accused Nadeem Khan taken on remand
Bareilly: Police on Saturday brought Nadeem Khan, a key accused in the Bareilly violence case and a leader associated with the Ittehad-e-Millat Council (IMC), on a four-hour custody remand and escorted him…
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Bareilly violence: Three more chargesheets filed against Tauqeer Raza
Bareilly: Police have filed chargesheets in three more cases against Ittehad-e-Millat Council (IMC) president Tauqeer Raza, the main accused in the September 26 violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly, officials said on Wednesday.…
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Two-storey marketplace owned by Maulana Tauqeer Raza’s close associate razed
The Bareilly Development Authority (BDA) tore down a two-storey market complex owned by Mohammad Arif, a close associate of Maulana Tauqeer Raza, accused of orchestrating the Bareilly communal tension on September 26.…
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Court rejects bail plea of Maulana Tauqeer Raza and five in Bareilly violence
Bareilly: A court in Bareilly has rejected the bail applications of Ittehad-e-Millat Council chief and five others arrested for attacking police personnel during the September 26 violence over the “I Love Mohammad”…
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Maulana Tauqeer Khan’s relative claims his followers are threatening her
Bareilly: Nida Khan, the daughter-in-law of the elder brother of Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, chief of the Ittehad-e-Millat Council (IMC) and a prominent figure in the Ala Hazrat family of Bareilly, allegedly…
- India
Pastor among three held for illegal religious conversions in UP
Bareilly: Three persons, including a pastor, have been arrested for allegedly luring poor and underprivileged Hindus to convert to Christianity, officials said on Tuesday. According to police, the three were allegedly offering…
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‘I Love Muhammad’ row: Tauqeer Raza Khan’s aide Afzal Beg surrenders
Bareilly (UP): Afzal Beg, the personal secretary of Ittehad-e-Millat Council (IMC) chief Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, and a wanted accused in the September 26 violence case, surrendered before a court here, police…
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Different laws being followed in the country for Hindus and Muslims: Congress
Saharanpur: Congress MP from Saharanpur, Imran Masood, on Sunday alleged that the government was following “two types of laws” for Hindus and Muslims, as he called into question police action against the…
