A first information report was filed against Samajwadi Party MP Zia-ur-Rahman Barq and the son of a party MLA in connection with Sunday’s clashes.
Five persons are confirmed to have been killed in Sunday’s clashes between protestors and security personnel in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district, The Times of India reported.
The mob was protesting a court-ordered survey of a Mughal-era mosque. It was initially reported on Sunday evening that three persons had died in the clashes.
On Monday, Moradabad Divisional Commissioner Aunjaneya Kumar Singh said the police had officially registered four deaths in connection with the violence. However, the family of a fifth person who died in the clashes had not sent the body for autopsy or lodged a complaint with the police, The Times of India quoted Singh as saying.
A first information report has been filed against Samajwadi Party MP Zia-ur-Rahman Barq and the son of an MLA from the party, according to the newspaper.
The incident took place on Sunday after hundreds of protestors gathered at the Shahi Jama Masjid in the district’s Chandausi town to oppose the survey, which was being conducted to investigate claims that a Hindu temple had existed at the site before the mosque was built in 1526.
Members of the mob threw stones at surveyors, who were accompanied by police personnel.
