India, Sept. 27 -- MEERUT Tensions flared in Bareilly after Friday prayers when several protestors gathered near the Naumahla Mosque and at other places in support of the 'I Love Muhammad' campaign on the call of a local cleric and Ittehad-e-Millat Council chief Maulana Tauqeer Raza.

Hundreds of people from the Muslim community took to the streets carrying posters and banners bearing the slogan. Large crowds gathered outside the cleric's residence and near the mosque, both in the Kotwali area, with people expressing anger over the last-minute suspension of the protest due to denial of permission by local authorities, said police.

Police attempted to disperse the crowd which gathered outside the mosque, but the angry protesters began pel...