<h1>Judicial commission finds November 2024 unrest resulted from planned conspiracy after mosque survey, involving external rioters, arms, drugs</h1> A three-member judicial commission concluded that the November 2024 Sambhal unrest arose from a planned conspiracy for riot following a court-ordered survey of a mosque, which triggered clashes causing four deaths and multiple injuries. The report attributes the violence to mobilised external rioters, radical organisations, illegal arms and drug networks, and longstanding communal tensions, and documents significant demographic shifts in the town. It credits state police with averting a larger massacre and links the incident to a history of targeted communal incidents since Independence. The state leadership characterises prior administrations as having allowed selective targeting and vows preventive action.