The Allahabad excessive court docket has rejected the bail plea of Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, the alleged mastermind of the Bareilly violence in September 2025.
Rejecting the bail software, Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal noticed, “Communal concord types the bedrock of a democratic nation resembling India. Allowing people just like the applicant to incite divisions on non secular grounds for political achieve threatens to unravel the social material of the nation and poses a severe danger to nationwide integrity.”
“…Contemplating the applicant’s intensive legal historical past in related instances, there’s a important danger that, if launched, he might as soon as once more incite a specific group and disturb peace and concord. Subsequently, this court docket just isn’t inclined to grant bail to the applicant. Accordingly, the bail software is rejected,” the court docket mentioned in its June 5 order.
An FIR was lodged beneath varied sections of Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita at Bradari police station of Bareilly in reference to the case. Raza had moved the Allahabad excessive court docket in search of bail after the decrease court docket rejected his bail software.
Sitaram Yadav, the counsel for the accused, contended that the applicant was not named within the FIR and has been implicated regardless of there being no substantive materials indicating that he persuaded or provoked the group to assemble at Islamia Inter Faculty or to commit arson or destroy public property.
Maulana Tauqeer Raza has been languishing in jail since October 13, 2025. As per the police case, on September 26 final yr, Raza gave a name for members of a specific group to assemble at Islamiya Inter Faculty in Bareilly.
Regardless of prohibitory orders being in pressure, a crowd of about 500 individuals gathered and proceeded from Maulana Azad Inter Faculty in the direction of Shyamganj Chauraha. The gang, holding boards and elevating provocative slogans, paid little heed to the warnings and persuasions made by the police personnel on the spot.
The state of affairs escalated when the group grew to become aggressive. Thereafter, stones and acid bottles had been allegedly thrown on the police pressure and gunshots had been additionally fired from the group on the police personnel.
As per the FIR, within the ensuing violence, the garments of police personnel had been torn and two officers sustained accidents. Aggressive motion of the group created an environment of terror, forcing the police authorities to open fireplace in self-defence.
