Muslims around the world celebrated the 1500th anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Muhammad (La Paz is with him) on September 6. This year’s festivities for Rabiul Awwal, the third month of the Islamic lunar calendar, gained greater prominence due to the 15 centuries milestone that has passed since the born of the Holy Prophet.
India, with the third largest Muslim population in the world, also saw the day observed in areas with Muslim residents, such as the city of Kanpur in the state of Uttar Pradesh. And this is, where the sequence of events began that later triggered “repressions, FIRS (first information information), arrests, arrests, internet closures, political combat and a wave of protests” from UP, Uttarakhand, Gujarat to Maharashtra, according to the Indian media, according to the Indian media. The wire.
The front line He informed that Zafar Wali Gali, a lane in Syed Nagar in the Kanpur Rawatpur area, was decorated for eid–Miladun Nabi on September 4 and a lightboard with the slogan, “I love Muhammad,” he settled at the entrance to the street.
The Indian media reported that the installation fueled the tensions between the Muslim and Hindu communities, and some people of the latter oppose the installation of the Lightboard at the entrance because it is a “new tradition.”
Subsequently, the police were deployed as tensions and Lightboard increased was finally shot down and transferred to another place.
Police alleged that unknown young people knocked Hindu posters on the path of a Muslim procession on September 5, but the event culminated peacefully without incident.
However, “on September 9, acting on a complaint of the Pankaj Sharma sub -inspector, the local police presented FIRS against 24 individuals for allegedly disturbing community harmony,” Front line He informed, he added that the police said the cases did not go to the slogan, but that the alleged attempts to disturb community peace by installing tents and banners in a non -traditional location on a route traditionally used for RAM Navami processions.
Kanpur police said the case was recorded only after a review of CCTV images, “deliberate acts destined to disturb communal harmony,” The wire reported.
One of the people nominated in the FIR was summoned by the outlet: “The police are harassing us. Why are they not showing videos, photos or images of CCTV of us destroying any Hindu banner? Nothing illegal happened, and many of the appointed accused were not even present there in the procession.
“Last year, we showed the same message on a fabric banner, and no one raised objections. This year, we used a light board, and suddenly, people began to protest. I don’t understand why.”
Another place reserved by the Police, a prayer leader, expressed his discharge at the exit, saying that the police addressed him during the communal negotiations and that he did not understand why he was nominated in the case. “This FIR is completely unfounded and false, Hindu religious posters were not torn,” he told The Outlet.
Free Press Kashmir He informed that the problem won greater attention when the president and legislator of India Majlis -itehadul Muslimeen, Asaduddin Owaisi, Chief Asaduddin Owaisi said in an publication on X on September 15, “I love Muhammad,” and added that doing so was not a crime and tagged directly to the Kanpur police.
“His position caused more debate and attracted the national approach to the incident,” said the outlet, added that the slogan soon extended to other districts and states, including Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Telangana.
According The wireThe Association for the Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) documented cases and arrests nationwide related to the row, with the association registering at least 21 FIR that appointed 1,324 people and resulted in 38 arrests before September 23.
“Most Cases were in uttar Pradesh, Including Kaiserganj (355 Accused People), Shahjahanpur (200), Baghppp (150), Kanpur (24), Kaushambi (3), Unnao (8), Maharajganj (64), Pilibhit (9), and Varanasi (1). Godhra, Gujarat (88), Kashipur, Uttarakhand (401) and Byculla, Maharashtra (1).
With several incidents of communal protests or confrontations since then, the next important inflammation point that occurred was in the city of Bareilly of Uttar Pradesh, when violence was seen a public demonstration called by violence.
The cleric had urged the Muslim community to join the campaign, professing the slogan and meet in Islamia Ground before presenting a memorandum addressed to the president, but the call was withdrawn due to the lack of permission from the administrative authorities.
Despite this, “hundreds of people” gathered near the Islamic terrain on September 26 after Friday’s prayers and began to converge at the assembly point. The confrontations soon exploded when the police faced the protesters, with stones that are thrown, the shots shot and the bombings of tear gas and the cane charges used to disperse the crowd. Several arrests were made, including the BMI chief.
The wire He informed that by September 27, Internet services were suspended, arrests followed and a large police contingent in the city was parked. He said that the BMI chief had criticized police action as the objective of Muslims, adding that the situation soon “quickly acquired a political dimension” when Uttar Pradesh’s Prime Minister Yogi Adityanath condemned clashes as a “well -orchestrated attempt to interrupt social harmony” in a public event on the same day.
“Maulana had forgotten who is in power,” the exit cited the CM on the right, and added that he said that the government would act firmly against those who maintain the system hostage through the disturbances of the street.
“Every time a Hindu festival or celebration is approaching, they overhe Front line.
Meanwhile, the police and the officials said that the legal actions were launched in relation to the clashes and 10 cases were recorded in several police stations on September 27 with eight people sent to judicial custody and a total of 39 people arrested in the repression.
The comments of Uttar Pradesh Prime Minister and the state response generated criticism both within the ranges of parties and outside.
JAHANZAIB SIRWAL, a local leader of the Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party of Kashmir occupied by India, requested an impartial investigation to hold all offenders and not just a community.
“What was an act of simple and sincere faith has encountered FIRS, arrests and inflammatory rhetoric, including Adityanath’s comments about” abolling painting “and the teaching of generations lessons,” said the leader of the BJP.
He added that such statements were divisive and also a “affront constitutional law under article 25 to freely practice and profess the religion of one.” Expressing his disgust, Sirwal also threatened to resign the party on the “unacceptable” comments of Adityanath and the “vindictive” attitude of the State Police against the Muslim community.
The president of the Samajwadi party, Akhilesh Yadav, criticized the government’s response shortly after repression. “Government’s power exhibition is a sign of its weakness. Governments do not run through cane charges but through harmony and good will. He said in X.
The vice president of Jamat-I-Islami, the engineer Professor Salim, criticized the police action in Kanpur and other cases against protesters as a “shameless attempt” to suppress the voice of the Muslim community.
“The Statements by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Regarding Kanpur and its Aftermat Clearly Indicate The Ruling Dispensation’s Attitude. When People Protected This Government’s Attitude and the Administration’s Unfair Action in Kanpur, Authorities Attempted to Sup Conpress To Sup Conpress To Sup Conpress To Sup Conpress We Witnessed The Violence in Bareilly and The Police Brutaly Against Protests. Front line.
Meanwhile, The times of India He informed that all Muslim India Jamaat, president, Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi Bareilvi, described the “unfortunate” incidents and urged people to defend peace.
“The incident is unfortunate. Such incidents should not occur to any of the parties. I can afford everyone to defend peace. The only way to love the messenger of Islam is not to harm anyone, neither through words nor through actions and defend peace. He has given a message of peace to the police. The path he showed.
