LUCKNOW: Thakurganj police lodged another FIR on charges of violation of section 144 and rioting against Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Sadiq’s son Sibtain Sadiq and nine others named, besides 100 unidentified protesters sitting on agitation against the new citizenship law at
Clock
Tower in
Hussainabad
on Saturday.
Among those named are Sibtain Sadiq, son of Shia cleric and vice president of All India Muslim Personal Law Board Maulana Kalbe Sadiq, Adil Nasim Siddiqui, Sheikh Tahir, Mohammed Anas,
Laik Hassan
, Arshad Alam,
Mohammed Yameen
, Mohammed Akram, Qayum and Shafat, besides 100 unidentified on charges of rioting, unlawful assembly, disobedience to public order, obstruction to public way, assault or criminal force on public servant.
Station house officer, Thakurganj, Pramod Mishra lodged the FIR, the fifth since the imposition of prohibitory orders last week.
“All those named created obstruction near Clock Tower and misbehaved with police on being asked to move. We gently reminded them that section 144 was in place but they paid no heed,” said Mishra.
Some protesters, however, alleged that police hurled choicest of abuses at them and slapped their children.
When TOI asked assistant commissioner of police, Chowk, D P Tiwari about it, he stoutly denied the allegations saying, “Police is a disciplined unit. Several mediapersons were present at the spot. Police did not even touch a single woman or child.”
Overall, 367 persons have been booked by Lucknow police in five FIRs, including four in Thakurganj and one in Gomtinagar, registered since last week in connection with the protests.
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