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UP Submits Sambhal Violence Probe to CM; Govt Cites Conspiracy as Clerics Challenge Leaked Claims

The confidential, nearly 450-page report is under state review before any public release, even as leaders promote source-based accounts of premeditation and demographic change that local Muslim representatives dispute.

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Image shows violence that broke out during a survey of a mosque in Sambhal in November, 2024. (PTI/ file)
Vishnu Shankar Jain | Image: ANI

Overview

  • Officials confirmed the three-member judicial commission handed its report to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, with the document to be placed before the Cabinet and then the Assembly under established procedure.
  • Media accounts citing sources say the report traces roughly 15 communal outbreaks since Independence and records a sharp demographic shift in Sambhal’s municipal area, with Hindus falling from about 45% to roughly 15–20%.
  • Source-based summaries also assert the November 2024 unrest was preplanned, involved outsiders, and coincided with illegal arms and narcotics networks, while crediting police with preventing wider violence.
  • Adityanath said the report reveals a plot targeting Hindus and vowed to block any demographic change, as BJP figures framed the findings as a security concern and a basis for future policy.
  • Muslim clerics in Sambhal rejected the reported conclusions and questioned selective leaks, and legal teams for both sides said they would comment only after the confidential report is formally released.