AGRA/KANPUR: A police team patrolling in a minority-dominated area of Aligarh was allegedly pelted with stones when it objected to a group of 25 people offering prayer in a mosque on Thursday night, even as the country was observing a lockdown.The cleric of the mosque and two other persons were later arrested and sent to jail, police said.According to police, a group of 25 people was found offering 'namaz' at Takia mosque in Aligarh's Banna Devi area by a patrolling team. When the policemen advised them to disperse and offer the prayers at their homes to maintain social distance, stones were hurled at them, an officer said.Circle officer Pankaj Srivastava told TOI, "Two policemen were injured."In Kannauj, too, a group of namazis, who had gathered at a house in Qaziyan locality to offer Friday prayers defying lockdown norms, attacked and injured police and local intelligence unit personnel when they told the gathering to vacate the premises.In Palia town of Lakhimpur district, some devotees misbehaved with cops when questioned about offering Friday prayers in groups at a mosque. On Wednesday, a sub-inspector and a police constable were injured after being attacked by a group of villagers in Muzaffarnagar Against the backdrop of such attacks, UP CM Yogi Adityanath has now directed police to take strict action under the National Security Act, against those who target policemen and other officials.