‘Efforts to rehabilitate all riot-hit Muslims back’: Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind to hand over 66 houses to displaced families in Muzaffarnagar

Lucknow: In a bid to resettle scores of Muslim families displaced after 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUH) will provide houses to 66 such families on March 9.

In one of the worst communal clashes in the history of Uttar Pradesh, about 50,000 Muslims were displaced during and after riots in August-September 2013. The riots had left 62 dead, including 42 Muslims, and over 100 injured. Hundreds of houses were burnt during the riots.

Though the then Akhilesh Yadav government had tried to rehabilitate them but many Muslims, families, who had left their villages, never returned back. The JUH had made a list of those whose houses were burnt during riots and convinced them to settle back in their home town.