Overview

• On June 18 the UP Special Investigation Team submitted a chargesheet in Sambhal’s MP-MLA court citing rioting, criminal conspiracy and damage to public property among 23 accused
• Samajwadi Party MP Zia-ur-Rehman Barq is alleged to have delivered provocative speeches and coordinated late-night calls with mosque committee president Zafar Ali to mobilize crowds
• Authorities have arrested 92 people so far and continue to identify additional suspects through video evidence, call data records and ballistic reports
• Suhail Iqbal, son of SP MLA Iqbal Mehmood, was dropped from the final chargesheet after investigators found no evidence linking him to the violence
• The November 24 survey of the ASI-protected Shahi Jama Masjid triggered clashes that left four dead and 29 police and administration personnel injured