By
Rajesh Pandey
Another PIL has been filed before the Allahabad High Court seeking registration of FIR against Sambhal’s district magistrate (DM), superintendent of police, and concerned station house officer about the death of four individuals in the communal violence that broke out in Sambhal district of UP.
The PIL has also sought direction from the UP government to arrest these officials.
The PIL has alleged that four people died due to police firing.
The petition claims that no FIR has been filed against the responsible officers, and thus, the same should be done under the directions of the high court.
The PIL has been filed by Mohd Yusuf, the secretary of Hazrat Khwaja Garib Nawaz Association through his counsel Saher Naqvi and Mohd Arif.
It is likely to come up for a hearing before the court in the next week.
It was on November 19, that the court of civil judge (senior division) of Sambhal had passed an ex-parte order allowing a survey of the mosque by an advocate commissioner, after taking note of a suit that claimed the mosque was built after demolishing a temple.
Subsequently, on November 24, four people died of gunshot wounds meters away from the mosque after violence broke out after a survey team showed up at the mosque.
