Kanpur Violence: Number of arrests increased to 57, 19 more arrested. Kanpur News – Times of India

Kanpur: Police on Tuesday said they have arrested 19 more people in the last 24 hours in connection with Friday’s violence in Kanpur, taking the total number of arrests to over 50. main conspirator Hayat Zafar Hashmi And three of his accomplices have already been arrested and sent to jail. Police have detained a printing press owner in Kanpur’s Brahmanagar area for questioning for publishing posters calling for a bandh in protest against the alleged insult. Prophet Muhammad by BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma During a TV debate.
DCP Purvi Pramod Kumar said, “During interrogation, the owner of the printing press revealed that Sufiyan and Javed, Hayat’s close aides and conspirators, had reached the press and asked them to print the posters.”
The DCP said that the local police should be informed before publishing such posters calling for the closure of the market.