Overview

• An official three-member commission led by Justice (retd.) Devendra Kumar Arora handed its probe into the November 24, 2024 Sambhal clashes to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
• Officials say the contents are confidential pending Cabinet and Assembly processes, though government sources and media accounts describe findings of premeditation and outside instigation.
• Leaked summaries highlight a long-recorded pattern of communal incidents and a reported demographic shift with Hindus falling from about 45% at Independence to roughly 15–20% now.
• Adityanath credited police with averting a wider riot and called the events a conspiracy, while minister Gulab Devi publicly questioned the reasons for the reported decline in the Hindu population.
• Police investigations cite 12 FIRs, dozens of arrests and a multi-thousand-page SIT chargesheet, with recoveries including weapons described as foreign-manufactured.