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5. That after the night of 26th January, 2007, due to highly sensitive condition prevailing in the town Gorakhpur, curfew was imposed on three Police Station areas of the Gorakhpur town and Section 144 was in force in entire Gorakhpur city area including the places of public meeting and the torch procession. Despite this, the aforesaid unconstitutional meeting and torch procession was organized and conducted openly violating the Section 144 in presence Police Officers and the public was provoked and directed to perform criminal acts by the activists present there and the activists of other places were provoked through them. Aditya Nath Yogi provoked Hindus to kill Muslims and rob and set afire their houses and shops and to destruct their religious places and Tazias for the reason of the murder of Raj Kumar Agrahari (incident of 26/27th January, 2007 Gorakhpur Town) and the alleged incidents happending since 24th January, 2007 and also provoked Muslims to not to celebrate Muharram which was a conspiracy hatched by him on the basis of his maligned thought and to fulfil which, he was looking for an appropriate situation. Under this very conspiracy, criminal incidents were carried out in the Gorakhpur and Basti Divisions, which caused disruption of Law and Order.

Gorakhnath temple became main centre of communal miscreant activities of the followers of this Yogi Aditya Nath and their refuge and these miscreants attacked the houses of Muslims residing in the area adjoining the temple premises, their shops and godowns and the vehicles of Muslims standing there (Trucks, Rickshaw, Scooters, Cars, etc.) and set them afire which caused which loss. Under the criminal conspiracy and instigation of Member of Parliament Yogi and the abovenamed persons, the followers of Yogi Aditya Nath killed Rashid R/O Sahabgunj S/O Rasheed R/O Rahmat Nagar, P.S. Rajghat in the Rajghat Police Station area and such followers also tried to kill by setting afire by pouring petrol on Peshimam Tufail Ahmad S/O Munnavar Hussain R/O Singharia in Cantt. Police Station area and such followers also caused huge loss by destructing Mosque situated at Menhadia village under Police Station Gagaha and such followers also set afire the religious epic Kuran in the Mosque of Village Etkhauli and caused loss by destructing the Mosque under the Police Station Gagaha and such followers also set afire the madarsa situated in village Vasudiha under Police Station Gagaha and also set afire Tazias and such followers also set afire the shops of Abdulla S/O of Sharfuddin, Shahur, Riyaz all Muslims at Bhaluan Chouraha under Police Station Gagaha and the shops of Muslims named Fakharuddin and Islam were also set afire apart from Irshad Tent House at Jaitpur Couraha under Sahajnawan Police Station and such followers also destructed and destroyed the Eidgaah situated in village Rudlapur P.S. Khorabar and Eidgaah situated in village Dumri (Niwas) P.S. Sahajanawan, and Eidgaah situated in village Mustafabad @ Mallaur P.S. Sahjanawan and the Mosque situated in village Bhhopgarh P.S. Gola District Gorakhpur. Tazias were not allowed to be lifted at many places in Gorakhpur district and at many places where the Tazia procession were carried out, they were destructed and set afire there by doing miscreant acts there. The shops of Salim S/O Shaukat in village Jaddupatti, Ashiq Band, Anwar barber, Hafizullah and Jabbar in village Menhdeva under Police Station Sikrigunj were also set afire under the same conspiracy. These miscreants also robbed and set afire the shop of Tajammul Hussain in village Dhabra of Police Station Sikrigunj. In the same way, the shops of Nadir, Ashiq Mukhtar were robbed and set afire in Belghat and such miscreants also attacked the mosque situated in village Bhainsa P.S. Bansgaon and destroyed it’s gate and also destructed shops of two Muslims in the market.

7. That the followers of Aditya Nath Yogi and activists – miscreants of the abovenamed organization robbed and set afire the buses of the roadways by blocking the roads and the government and private other vehicles were also robbed and set afir4e. The conduction of roadways buses in Gorakhpur and Basti Division remained effected during the period from 29.01.2007 to 5th February, 2007 and other adjoining Division also remained effected. During the period from 9th January to 31st January, 2007, the followers and activists of Yogi Aditya Nath destroyed more than 22 buses of the roadways on different places under this conspiracy and also caused loss by setting them afire, in which 14 roadways buses belonged to Gorakhpur areas and 8 buses belonged to outer areas. On date 31st January, 2007 road buses in the Nichnaul depot in Maharajgunj district were also destructed and set afire by the followers of Yogi Aditya Nath.

8. That Railways was disrupted by the followers of Yogi Aditya Nath Hindu Yuva Vahini, BJP and Vyapar Mandal and about more than 14 trains were set afire causing loss and the Yogi supported miscreants of these organizations pelted stones and destructed the office of the SDM situated in Bansgaon and office of the DM at Gorakhpur under the criminal conspiracy and flamboyant speech against the government and instigation for criminal acts by the persons abovenamed and in the same way the miscreants of these organizations robbed and set afire the shops of Muslims in other Kasbas Khajani, Kauriram, Bansgaon, etc. of the Gorakhpur district. In Kasba Khajani, these miscreants entered the mosque and and Madarsa Arabia Ahal-e-Sunnat and robbed and destroyed the same and also robbed and set afire the shops of 15 Muslims, whose details have been mentioned in the petition dated 5th July, 2007 written by Mohammad Asad Hayat to the Senior Superintendent of Police, Gorakhpur and the vehicles of Muslims plying on the road were also made targets. In Kasba Gola, the shops of Akhtar Hussain S/O Muhhamad Umar, Gulab Hussain S/O Ismail, Abrar S/O Sarfaraz, Aftab S/O Noor Alam, Feroz and Tahir were also robbed and set afire. In Kasba Kauriram, the shops of Nabi Muhammad, Nizamuddin, Majnu and Yusuf were also set afire. In Kasba Bansgaon, the shops of Tazammul Hussain and Dr. Siraz Ansari were also robbed and burnt. The Muslims aggrieved by these incidents were not heard by the Police. Apart from this, the shops, houses and Tazias of Muslims were robbed and burnt in many rural areas of Gorakhpur district. All these incidents have been published in Newspapers from 29th January, 2007 to 15th February, 2007. All these criminal acts were done by the follower activists of Yogi Aditya Nath connected to Hindu Yuva Vahini, BJP and Vyapar Mandal on instigation by aforesaid enraging speech by Yogi Aditya Nath and under the conspiracy hatched by Yogi Aditya Nath and other abovenamed persons.