Overview

• Police in Bareilly used a lathi charge after stone-pelting broke out when crowds gathered with posters near Ala Hazrat Dargah and a cleric’s residence following Friday prayers.
• DIG Ajay Sahni said cases have been registered and legal proceedings are underway, while District Magistrate Avinash Singh reported the situation under control after flag marches.
• Authorities had denied permission for a planned sit-in called by Ittehad-e-Millat Council chief Maulana Tauqeer Raza; Section 163 was invoked and RAF/PAC units were deployed across key areas.
• Uttar Pradesh Police remained on high alert for Friday prayers statewide, reiterating that public displays require prior approval and stationing personnel outside mosques.
• In related developments, a man at a Beed, Maharashtra event allegedly threatened UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as police probed the incident, and separate clashes and detentions were reported in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar district, Karnataka, and Uttarakhand’s Kashipur.