Bareilly/IBNS, Sept. 27 -- Tauqeer Raza, a local cleric in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly, who gave a call for protest with the "I love Mohammad" campaign causing tension in the city was detained on Saturday, media reports said.

The chief of Ittehad-e-Millat Council is currently under interrogation.

According to reports, a large number of people had gathered close to Bareilly's Islamia ground following Friday's prayer, over a call by a cleric to raise voices and submit a memorandum in connection with an FIR lodged in Kanpur after a tent with an 'I Love Muhammad' poster was removed earlier this month.

The crowd allegedly raised objectionable slogans and pelted stones at the police, causing tension in the area.

The police launched a lathi cha...