MEERUT, Jan. 30 -- The Uttar Pradesh government has moved the Allahabad high court against a judicial order from earlier this month that directed lodging of an FIR against 22 police officers, including then circle officer (CO) of Sambhal city Anuj Chaudhary, for allegedly firing upon a youngster during the November 2024 violence. Then Sambhal chief judicial magistrate (CJM) Vibhanshu Sudheer on January 9 ordered lodging of an FIR against Chaudhary, then Kotwali in-charge Anuj Tomar, and 20 unknown police officers, following a complaint alleging police firing during unrest linked to a court-ordered survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid. Sambhal superintendent of police (SP) KK Bishnoi confirmed that a "revision petition" has been filed in the high court on behalf of the state government, seeking quashing of the CJM's order. The matter is yet to come up for hearing. The CJM's order came on an application filed by Mohammed Yameen, a resident of Khaggu Sarai in Sambhal, alleging that his son Alam was selling biscuits on his cart near Jama Masjid on November 24, 2024, when the police officers started firing at the crowd gathered there to protest the survey of the mosque, believed to have been built in 1529. Yameen alleged that his son suffered three bullet wounds, a claim refuted by SP Bishnoi as "baseless". "Police did not open fire during the incident," the SP said, alleging that complainant's son was an accused in the violence case. Earlier this week, the high court granted interim anticipatory bail to Alam in the Sambhal violence case. CJM Sudheer, who ordered filing of FIR against the police personnel, was transferred to Sultanpur in an administrative reshuffle a week after his direction. Besides the state government, the officers named in the CJM's order have also independently approached the high court....