Hyderabad, March 9 -- A group of nine Muslims including an imam were arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur town after the Iftar timing was announced on a loudspeaker at a local mosque. The controversy erupted on Sunday, March2, in the Manakpur Bajaria village under the Syed Nagar Chowki area of Tanda police station.

The Muslim group was arrested following a hate campaign led by the local Hindutva outfits members who objected to the announcement, calling it "new Islamic traditions being enforced in the locality", and logged a police complaint.

Iftar is the evening meal that Muslims eat to break their fast at sunset during the month of Ramzan, marking the end of the daily fast from dawn to dusk.

According to media reports, the Hindutva memb...