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New Delhi, Feb 3: A prominent Muslim organisation Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) on Saturday said that the violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj is a handiwork of few anti-social elements and hooligans and it doesn't have the support of Hindu masses.

Addressing a press conference on Saturday Salim Engineer, general secretary of JIH, said that agencies probing the violence are biased against minorities.

"The law enforcement agencies in Kasganj are having a very biased attitude against the minorities, which is reflected in the substantially high number of arrests of youth from the Muslim community."

"The CrPC sections invoked against the arrested Muslim youth on charges of inciting and committing violence in Kasganj are also very strict while the real culprits have been let off or charged under very mild CrPC sections so that they can be bailed out easily," he further said.

“We would like to question the Yogi administration on why Tiranga rally was permitted when it was clear that the people behind it were having a communal agenda to vitiate the peaceful atmosphere of the city and create communal strife,” Salim stated.  

He also demanded a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the violence and expressed his dissatisfaction by the order to conduct a SIT probe.