Sambhal: Seven people were booked after posters reading "I Love Muhammad" were reportedly found pasted inside a mosque in Kaserua village, Sambhal police said.
Sambhal Additional Superintendent of Police Kuldeep Singh said the posters were recovered during an exercise to seal a building within Nakhasa police station limits. “During this process, some objectionable material was recovered from the building. Taking cognisance of the matter, action is being initiated against members of the Jamia Committee under relevant legal provisions,” he said.
In a separate operation in the district, revenue officials on June 5 demolished a dargah in Baghaun village of Gunnour tehsil, saying it had been constructed illegally on government land. The shrine, known as Khere Wale Baba Chaman Shah Baba Dargah Sharif, was removed after a tehsildar’s court ordered eviction and the district magistrate’s court rejected an appeal.
District Magistrate Ankit Khandelwal said local resident Aziz was booked for allegedly encroaching on about 24 square metres of public land where the shrine stood. Gunnour Sub-Divisional Magistrate Vikas Chandra said the structure had been built around five years ago. Superintendent of Police Krishan Kumar Bishnoi said the government is reclaiming land under its land bank initiative and that around 100 hectares have been freed from encroachment in the district; forces from four police stations were deployed during the demolition.
Aziz, the shrine caretaker, maintained the site was 500–600 years old and dedicated to a saint.
(With PTI inputs)