In Uttar Prdesh, a local court in Muzaffarnagar today issued non-bailable warrants against Maulana Nazeer and eight others in connection with the Muzaffarnagar clashes.

Police had registered a case against the nine persons for allegedly violating prohibitory orders on September 3, but
they are yet to be presented in court.

Maulana Nazeer, against whom a case has been registered for allegedly inflaming communal tension, had reportedly met
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow in September.