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A Muslim youth allegedly lured and abducted two Hindu girls, aged 13 and 15 years, resulting in tensions in Banbhoolpura region of Haldwani in Uttarakhand

n a major breakthrough in the Haldwani violence that broke out on 8th February in the Banbhoolpura region, the mastermind Abdul Malik was arrested on Saturday in Delhi

When the police reached his house for attachment, they were stunned to find the house which resembles a palace, and the antique and foreign items inside.

A week after a Muslim mob attacked police and administration in Uttarakhand's Haldwani, the police have revealed that Muslim women wearing 'burqa' pelted stones at the police personnel

An eyewitness of the incident told OpIndia that Faheem Qureshi died of his own bullet during the violence in Haldwani.

On Thursday the Uttarakhand High Court refused to grant relief to a PIL seeking stay of demolition of illegal madarsa and mosque in Haldwani

It is worth noting that this is not the first time that Haldwani has been engulfed in protests and violence over government action against illegal encroachments. In January last year, a massive protest had erupted in Haldwani over the issue of the removal of encroachment from the land owned by the Indian Railways.