Sambhal. The district police has detained Advocate Zafar Ali, chairman of the royal Jama Masjid Committee, in the case of violence in Sambhal on November 2024. He has been detained due to the role of Zafar Ali in the case of violence in Sambhal. The local court ordered the commissioner survey of Sambhal’s royal Jama Masjid. On the order of the court, the royal Jama Masjid was surveyed on 19 November 2024. After this, when the survey was being done in the morning on 24 November 2024, the miscreants committed violence outside the mosque. 4 people died in violence. Sambhal police arrested more than 50 miscreants after identification for committing violence.
It is now known that Advocate Zafar Ali, Chairman of the Shahi Jama Masjid Committee, was present during the Court Commissioner Survey on 19 and 24 November. When the survey was being done on the 24th, Zafar Ali also went to meet the crowd outside the mosque. After the information came to light, Sambhal police called the chairman of the Shahi Jama Masjid Committee for questioning. Advocate Zafar Ali is reported to be detained after interrogation. The SIT was formed on the instructions of CM Yogi Adityanath to investigate the violence in Sambhal. The violence is also being investigated by a Judicial Commission.
Regarding Sambhal’s royal Jama Masjid, the Hindu side claims that there was a temple of Kalki avatar of Lord Vishnu. In the year 1528, a mosque was built there on the instructions of Mughal Emperor Babur. The Hindu side also claims that the wells of the Hindu community used to worship in the premises of Sambhal’s royal Jama Masjid, but later the puja was stopped in the well inside the mosque at the behest of Shafiqur Rahman Burke (now late), who was SP MP from Sambhal. In this case, a case is now going on in the court.
