The mob staged a sit-in at the Ramlila grounds and refused to leave until the arrest was made after the police chased the crowd away from the Hindu boy's residence.
Dayanand Gupta, one of the eyewitnesses of the 1980 Moradabad Riots, testified how during the violence the Muslim mob launched an unprovoked attack on the police officials and the members of the Valmiki Dalit community
The UP government recently tabled the inquiry report into the 1980 Moradabad riots that killed at least 83 people and left 112 others injured which revealed that Muslim League leaders had orchestrated the riots
FIR in the case has been registered under the relevant sections of the IPC and POSCO. The dead body of the victim has been sent for post-mortem, reports of which are awaited. Further investigations are underway.
The couple was working on the evening of Independence Day and had put the infant, named Lalla, to sleep on the cot. Soon after, a dog arrived and lifted him from there.