A person has been arrested for allegedly threatening a sub-divisional Justice of the Peace (SDM) in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki district in reference to the current demolition of a mosque, police mentioned on Sunday.
The Garib Nawaz mosque in Ram Sanehi Ghat tehsil within the district was demolished on May 17.
The tehsil’s SDM, Divyanshu Patel, was threatened on social media by Ashraf Ali, a resident of the district’s Dariyabad police station space, and he was arrested on Saturday, police mentioned.
In his social media put up, Ali, whereas referring to the demolition of the mosque, has accused the SDM of being biased and threatened him to bear the implications, they mentioned.
On May 17, following the orders of the court docket of the SDM, an outdated mosque positioned adjoining to the tehsil premises and reverse to the residence of the SDM was demolished amid heavy safety.
The mosque was registered within the information of the UP Sunni Central Waqf Board.
The administration claimed that it was an unlawful residential constructing.
The All-India Muslim Law Board (AIMPLB) and the UP Sunni Central Waqf Board had on Tuesday demanded a judicial probe into the demolition.
“The century-old Garib Nawaz mosque in Ram Sanehi Ghat tehsil was demolished by the administration without any legal justification on Monday night in the presence of police,” AIMPLB working basic secretary Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rehmani had mentioned in a press release.
Barabanki District Magistrate (DM) Adarsh Singh, had nonetheless, mentioned the construction was unlawful, and the tehsil administration received its possession on March 18.
He mentioned that the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court had disposed of a petition filed on this connection on April 2, which proved that the development was unlawful.
The DM mentioned a case was then filed within the court docket of the SDM of Ram Sanehi Ghat, and its orders had been complied with on May 17.
