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'I Love Muhammed' Row: Police, Locals Clash After Friday Prayers Outside Bareilly Mosque

The controversy dates back to September 9 when police in Kanpur filed an FIR for allegedly installing boards with ‘I Love Muhammad’ written on them.

Bareilly: An announcement postponing a proposed demonstration in support of the ‘I Love Muhammad’ campaign by Maulana Tauqeer Raza, local cleric and chief of Ittehad-e-Millat Council, led to a clash between a large crowd and police outside a mosque in Bareilly on Friday.

Police said large crowds holding ‘I Love Muhammad’ posters gathered outside the cleric's residence and near the mosque, both in the Kotwali area and located at a short distance from each other, after Friday prayers, with people expressing their anger over t

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