A delegation from the Uttar Pradesh BJP is meeting the governor over reports that the Lashkar has been contacting Muzaffarnagar riot victims. The BJP says that if the report is indeed true, it is a serious breach of security and the Centre as well as the state must explain the lapse.

Two Muslim clerics from Haryana arrested for alleged links to the terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba tried to recruit men from riot-hit Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi Police sources have said.

The two men from Muzaffarnagar told the Delhi police that the terror suspects, arrested last month, made several visits to relief camps set up after the September communal clashes. Some of the men who were allegedly approached refused to work for the Pakistan-based terror group and went to the Delhi Police instead, sources say.

They are believed to have told the police that the clerics - Hafeez Rashidi and Shahid - made several visits to the relief camps.

Digvijaya Singh has said that if this is indeed true, it gives credence to what Rahul Gandhi had said.