Muzaffarnagar

The woman was reportedly accompanied by a Hindu male friend who was also thrashed by the mob.

The accused didn't let the women or her children leave their room and threatened her with murder to scare her into staying.

Besides Amit, several others including Jagmohan, Pratap, Roki, Jaibeer and Deepak were also injured and had to be rushed to the district hospital.

A Muzaffarnagar mosque and shops linked to Liaquat Ali Khan were declared 'enemy property', sparking legal and communal tensions in UP.

Reportedly, one of the accused, Lokesh, had earlier served as a district vice president for Chandrashekhar Azad's Azad Samaj Party in Muzaffarnagar.

Muzaffarnagar SSP stated that five key individuals responsible for planning and carrying out the vandalism and stone-pelting in Budhana have been identified, out of whicg two are associated with AIMIM

Thousands of Muslims came out in Budhana town in Muzaffarnagar on Saturday night over the rumour of release of a man over a blasphemous social media post

All hotel owners and sellers are instructed to display their names in front of their establishments by the Uttar Pradesh govt.

As the administration of Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh has issued an order asking hotels, dhabas, and carts selling food items to write the name of their proprietors and operators running the shop or cart during Kanwar Yatra, several Islamists are suffering a tremendous meltdown.

Yashveer Maharaj said, "There is a so-called journalist, Mohammed Zubair. He is the same Mohammed Zubair who provoked Muslims against Hindus with his posts and he has been to jail. There is a case against him in Muzaffarnagar as well."