India mosque demolition: report filed on Muslim leaders false, court finds

Barabanki district authorities had accused them of forging documents leading to illegal construction

An Indian court has ruled that a local government administration in Uttar Pradesh filed a false and unfounded" police report against eight Muslim leaders who had opposed the illegal" demolition of their mosque.

The bulldozing of the Masjid Gareeb Nawaz Al Maroof last month, carried out on the orders of the local administration of Barabanki district, caused an outcry and sent many local Muslims into hiding.