Communal tension prevailed in the Behta hamlet of Fatehpur when an agitated mob torched a madarsa following recovery of animal flesh near a pond on Monday.
A large contingent of police force was rushed to the troubled village to bring the situation under control while senior police and district administration officials were camping in the area to avert any further flare-up.
As per reports, some women detected flesh in a bag near a pond on Tuesday morning. Claiming that the flesh was stored in the madarsa and later thrown there, the locals started a protesting. Enraged over the incident, people from adjoining villages like Udrauli, Shahbajpur, Khanjhalpur, Faridpur, Dhanmau and Gauri ransacked a madarsa and later torched it before police could act.
Later, a large contingent of police and district administration officials rushed to the site. District Magistrate Sanjeev Kumar Singh later claimed that the situation was tense but under control while PAC and police personnel had been deployed in the village to prevent any untoward incident.
The police registered an FIR against two accused — Mushtaq and Munna Shah — in connection with the recovery of flesh. However, both are absconding since the violence broke out.
