The police have arrested eight persons, including local cleric and chief of Ittehad-e-Millat Council Tauqeer Raza Khan, whose call for a protest supporting the ‘I love Muhammad’ campaign led to a violent clash between demonstrators and the police after Friday prayers in Bareilly, officials said on Saturday.

A local court on Saturday sent Raza and the seven “mischievous elements” to 14-day judicial custody for allegedly masterminding the violent clash, the police said.

District Magistrate Avinash Singh and Senior Superintendent of Police Anurag Arya announced the arrests at a joint press conference on Saturday.

The seven other accused have been identified as Sarfaraz, Manifuddin, Azeem Ahmed, Mohammed Sharif, Mohammed Aamir, Rehan and Mohammad Sarfaraz, the police said.

The police have

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