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Lucknow: Several members of a Muslim outfit Wednesday
tried to disrupt an Iftar party hosted by the American Embassy at
a five-star hotel here, police said.
"Under the banner of 'Hussaini Tigers Lucknow Shia Sangathan',
several people demanded that the party be cancelled. Shouting
anti-America slogans, members of the outfit said they would not
allow America to host the party for its 'anti-Muslim activities',"
police inspector K.N. Mishra told reporters here late Wednesday
evening.
Later, police detained several members of the outfit as they tried
to barge inside the Clarks Awadh Hotel, the venue for the Iftar
party.
"Americans have no right to host the Iftar-party as it itself is
involved in anti-Muslim activities... we would continue to protest
if such a function is organised by America," a member of the
outfit, Shameel Shamsi said in a statement issued here.
Even as the police claimed that no force was used against the
protestors, the members of the outfit alleged several of them were
injured as police baton-charged them even though they were
demonstrating in a peaceful manner.
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