There is tension in village Khampur under Chapaar police station in Muzaffarnagar district following violent clashes between the kawariyas and some members of the minority community. Over a dozen kawariyas have been admitted to hospitals with injuries, and the police force has been deployed in the village.

While kawariyas were raising religious slogans on their way back with Gangajal (water of river Ganga) from Haridwar, some residents of Khampur asked them to pass through their village silently. However, they refused to stay silent and continued sloganeering. This apparently angered members of the minority community who attacked them with sharp weapons when they were entering a temple in the area to offer Gangajal.

KB Singh, Senior Superintendent of Police said, "Some people have sustained injuries. The situation is now under control."

But Kapil Deo Agrawal, a local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, alongwith a large number of members of Hindu organizations have said they would start a movement against the apathy of the state government towards kawariyas.