Overview

• Authorities kept mobile data, broadband and SMS suspended from 3 pm on October 2 to 3 pm on October 4 across Bareilly and nearby districts on public order grounds.
• Police and paramilitary forces mounted a massive operation with roughly 8,500 personnel, rooftop drone surveillance and citywide patrol grids split into super zones and zones.
• Senior clerics, including from Ala Hazrat Dargah and the All India Muslim Jamaat, urged worshippers to pray quietly and return home, with one annual procession called off for this year.
• Investigators filed around 10 FIRs naming about 200 among roughly 2,500 accused and arrested more than 70 people, including cleric Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, whom police describe as the main conspirator.
• Markets opened with thin footfall under watch, neighboring districts remained on high alert, and officials said further action, including against properties of identified rioters, is being prepared.