The Hindu girl had befriended the Muslim boy while in school where he promised to marry her and had even said she could continue to practice her faith.
In January this year, Tauqir Raz addressed a gathering of 20 lakh Muslims in Bareilly and threatened that Hindus would have nowhere to escape if the rage of Muslims flared. Tauqeer Raza, once an ally of the Samajwadi Party and Congress, was heard as saying, “If we rise, you can’t hide”.
Following the Friday Namaz, a Muslim crowd assembled at the Raza Chowk in Bareilly, raised slogans against Nupur Sharma and demanded her immediate arrest
UP police booked Samajwadi Party MLA Shazil Islam, party's district unit vice president Sanjeev Kumar Saxena and some other party leaders for threatening CM Yogi Adityanath