Lucknow Police have filed a first information report (FIR) against two Muslim clerics from Bijnor district in western Uttar Pradesh for the murder of Kamlesh Tiwari, the leader of a fringe political group in the state. According to news agency ANI, in 2016 one of the clerics - Maulana Anwarul Haq - placed a bounty of Rs. 51 lakh on Mr Tiwari's life after he allegedly made derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammad the year before.
