2025 Bareilly violence: HC says ‘sar tan se juda’ slogan incites people, denies bail to cleric
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The Allahabad High Court on Monday denied bail to an Islamic cleric who has been accused of inciting violence during a protest in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly in September 2025.
The protest was held against alleged atrocities and filing of allegedly false cases against Muslims by the state government.
The bench observed that Maulana Tauqeer Raza, the cleric accused in the matter, had called for the protest “admittedly to satisfy his religious and his private political interests”. The gathering had been organised without permission from the authorities, the court said.
The court made the observations on a plea filed by Raza seeking bail in the matter.
The bench said that while the applicant has claimed to have cancelled the gathering at a college ground after the administration denied permission for the protest, the demonstrators had marched to the venue.
The police personnel performing their duty to maintain law and order were allegedly manhandled by the crowd, the court said. The crowd “indulged in rioting, destruction of public property resulting in injuries to police personnel”, it said in its order.
The court said that while Raza was not present at the place of the incident, and was at the home of a co-accused, his speech after the violence thanking the crowd and “applauding their...