Muzaffarnagar (UP), Oct 15 (PTI) A fast track court here on Saturday sentenced 10 people to five years' imprisonment in connection with a communal clash case in 2006.

Fourteen people were acquitted due to lack of evidence.

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Judge Anil Kumar also imposed a fine of Rs 34,000 on the 10 convicts – Naseem, Kaleem, Nasir, Irfan, Tiyaz, Iqbal, Nadeem, Dilshad, Rizwan, and Sabir.

According to government lawyer Kamal Kant, a clash had broken out on February 24, 2006 between two groups of different faiths in an area under Civil Lines Police Station.

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Several people had been injured in stone pelting that followed the confrontation.

The clash had happened when the people from one of the groups were returning from a protest meet held to denounce a cartoon of Prophet Mohammad.

In the wake of the incident, police had registered cases against 24 people for rioting.

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