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Day after clashes in UP’s Sambhal over mosque survey, FIR lodged against SP MP, MLA’s son

The clashes on Sunday broke out after a court-appointed advocate commissioner and six members of his team entered the mosque for a second survey around 7 am.

Police deployed at the Shahi Jama Masjid area in Sambhal following violence, (Express Photo by Gajendra Yadav)

A day after multiple people were killed and at least 20 police personnel injured following clashes over a survey at the Shahi Jama Masjid in western UP’s Sambhal, a first information report (FIR) was registered Monday against Samajwadi Party MP Zia-ur-Rahman Barq, and the son of an MLA from the party in connection with the case.

The death toll in the clashes went up to four on Sunday after a 19-year-old boy passed away due to gunshot wounds, the police said. On Sunday, three people had died during the clashes.

The clashes on Sunday broke out after a court-appointed advocate commissioner and six members of his team entered the mosque for a second survey around 7 am. The first survey, ordered by the court, was conducted on November 19.

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“The survey team along with the advocate commissioner of the court, District Magistrate and a team of security personnel reached the spot for the survey. Groups of people soon reached the site and started raising slogans and pelting stones,” Divisional Commissioner Singh said on Sunday.

Officials said the stone pelting subsided for some time but resumed on a bigger scale when the survey team was leaving the site after finishing their work around 11 am. “There were three groups, one on the left, one on the right and another on the central road. They began throwing stones at police and members of the survey team,” Singh added.

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has urged the Supreme Court to immediately “take cognizance of the conspiracy of spreading tension in the name of survey”. He also alleged that the BJP government and its administration “orchestrated the violence to divert attention from electoral malpractice”.

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