Terror revisits Gujarat’s Godhra for the first time since the 2002 train burning. A Muslim mob surrounds and attacks a police station.
In Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha, a Navratri procession is pelted with stones and a Kali idol gets damaged.
In Uttarakhand’s Kashipur, the police are beaten up by a mob.
In Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly, protests called by local cleric Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan of the Ittehad-e-Millat Council get physical after Friday prayers. The mob clashes with the police. Cops beat up protesters, arrest the cleric.
In Barabanki, violence erupts over a watchman allegedly tearing down an ‘I Love Muhammad’ (ILM) banner.
‘I Love Muhammad’ slogans quickly degenerate into ‘Sar tann se juda’ screams in Lucknow, Unnao and Bhadohi.
Reports of clashes come in from UP, MP, Maharashtra