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ASP, chairperson of Shahi Jama Masjid committee argue over posters of Sambhal violence suspects on mosque wall | Lucknow News

ASP, chairperson of Shahi Jama Masjid committee argue over posters of Sambhal violence suspects on mosque wall | Lucknow News

Heated arguments took place between a senior police officer in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal town and the chairperson of the Shahi Jama Masjid and others after the district police pasted posters of 74 suspects in the Sambhal violence case on the wall of the mosque Friday. The police move came hours after posters of an accused that they had put up at several places in Sambhal were torn off by unidentified people on Friday afternoon. The posters announced a reward for those sharing information about the suspects. Five people were killed and nearly 50 others, including a dozen policemen, were injured in the violence that broke out in Sambhal on November 24 last year in the wake of a court-ordered survey of the sixteenth-century mosque. Story continues below this ad Jafar Ali, the chairperson of the Shahi Jama Masjid managing committee, and others accompanying him later told Shrish Chandra, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Sambhal North, that posters cannot be pasted on the walls of any religious place and they should be removed immediately. In a …