The police crackdown on the 'I Love Muhammad' campaign among Muslims has intensified in several districts across Uttar Pradesh, with a prominent cleric being among eight people arrested on Saturday.

Prominent Muslim scholar and president of the Ittehad-e-Millat Parishad, Maulana Tauqeer Raza, along with seven others, were arrested on Saturday after being allegedly kept under house arrest following a call for protest against the police crackdown on the campaign on Friday.

A local court has sent Raza and seven others to 14-day judicial custody for allegedly "masterminding" what the police described as a violent clash on Friday.

As many as ten FIRs have been registered in connection with the campaign across the Bareilly district, with each one naming between 150 and 200 Muslims as accuse

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