Uttar Pradesh: The police had to intervene when a group kanwariyas came face to face with Muslim mourners taking out a procession on Muharram on the Bareilly Highway to ensure no major incident took place, officials said.
Stones were also pelted at the police, and Circle Officer (Sadar) Prateek Dahiya got injured. "Yes, I was slightly hit by an object. I don't know whether it was stone or something else," he told PTI.
He added the kanwariyas and 'taziadaars' came face to face, but "timely intervention by the police" prevented any untoward incident. The situation is "absolutely under control" now, he said. The windscreen of a magistrate's four-wheeler was damaged in stone-pelting, he added.
Earlier, a section of people taking out Muharram processions clashed with police and pelted stones at them, injuring around 10 cops and damaging several vehicles, after they were stopped from changing the designated route in west Delhi's Nangloi on July 29, officials said.
Meanwhile, a man participating in a Muharram procession here on Saturday sustained burn injuries when the 'tazia' caught fire after coming in contact with a high-tension wire, police said.
The incident took place in the Aliganj area here. The injured, Rinku of JJ area in Purania, is in a critical condition, they said.
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