“A police case has been registered against 16 persons, including the procession’s organiser and his 15 unidentified aides, who, during the primary probe, have been found responsible for the incident. They have been booked under BNS Sections 191, 192, 132 and 121 and the process of identifying the 15 unidentified men is underway,” Sharma said.One of the prominent office bearers of Seerat Committee (which supervises organising of religious events and processions in Muslim dominated areas) also blamed the organisers of the concerned procession for the entire incident. “Multiple meetings were held several times over the last ten days, where the routes of each procession were determined by the administration and police in agreement with the organisers,” Seerat Committee’s joint secretary Advocate Maqsood Ali said.”Despite this, the organisers of the procession from Begum Bagh tried to move into the Abdalpura-Geeta Colony area, where its entry was already prohibited,” he added.Ali said that only the organisers are to be blamed for the incident. “Action shouldn’t just be taken against those responsible for the incident, but also those who were present at the earlier meetings with the police and still violated their signed bond agreement,” he stated.
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