A man has been booked here in connection with inciting sloganeering during Julus-e-Mohammadi on the occasion of Barawafat, a police officer said on Friday.
The FIR was lodged at the complaint of Sub-Inspector Ajay Kumar at Civil Lines Police Station.
Superintendent of Police (City) Amit Kishor Srivastava said that the Julus-e-Mohammadi, a procession, was taken out on Thursday in which inciting slogans were raised, an incident which was captured in a video and was widely shared.
Stringent action will be taken against the guilty persons, Srivastava said.