Overview

• Mobile internet, SMS, data, broadband and wireless services are suspended from 3 pm on October 2 to 3 pm on October 4 across four districts including Bareilly.
• Police, PAC and RAF units are deployed with drone surveillance and senior officials warned that any administrative lapse will draw stern action.
• Maulana Ahsan Razan Khan urged worshippers to return home after Friday prayers and to ignore rumours to maintain peace.
• Violence on September 26 followed a last‑minute cancellation of a planned demonstration, with about 2,000 people gathering, stone‑pelting reported and at least 81 arrests.
• Congress MP Imran Masood and SP MLA Shahnavaz Khan were stopped from visiting Bareilly this week, with police teams guarding their residences.