While confirming Ali’s arrest, the Chhatarpur district police superintendent Agam Jain told that besides the case registered on August 21, Ali had been accused in at least five more cases in the past, including a case of murder and multiple cases of criminal assaults. With Ali’s arrest, now 37 named accused have been arrested in the August 21 case, which includes a total of 90-plus identified accused.According to official sources, Ali’s arrest had emboldened some individuals of Chhatarpur district to inform the police about grabbing of their land by Ali and his aides in the past. Some of them may come forward to lodge cases against him and his aides in the coming days.The bulldozing of Ali’s palatial house and vehicles parked outside it on August 22 was condemned by various opposition leaders including Congress national general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi.On August 21, a mob led by Ali gathered outside the Chhatarpur Kotwali police station in Chhatarpur district of MP to protest the alleged statements made by Mahant Ramgiri Maharaj against Prophet Mohammad and Islam in Nashik in Maharashtra. The mob suddenly turned violent and attacked the police station with stones, injuring cops including the police station in-charge Arvind Kujur and a woman journalist Kalpana Yadav.While on the run in the August 21 attempt to murder and rioting case, Ali had claimed in a video message that he had not led or incited the mob to attack the police station and on the contrary he had tried to prevent it. It was some anti-social elements intruding into the mob, who actually indulged in violence, he said.
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