• Aug 10, 2018:   The Supreme Court of India has taken a serious view of increasing lawlessness and vandalism indulged in by religious groups and said that the destruction of private property is a cognizable offence and the police must act, even if no FIR is filed.

The riot has been described as "the worst violence in Uttar Pradesh in recent history", with the army, as a result, being deployed in the state for the first time in last 20 years.

Supreme Court of India while hearing petitions in relation to the riots held the Akhilesh Yadav led Samajwadi Party, prima facie guilty of negligence in preventing the violence and ordered it to immediately arrest all those accused irrespective of their political affiliation.

Court also blamed the Central government for its failure to provide intelligence inputs to the Samajwadi Party-governed state government in time to help sound alerts.

• Aug 20, 2013:   On this day, BSP MP Kadir Rana was booked for his alleged hate speech in Khalapar area of the city. He was absconding but surrendered on 17 December 2013 and was sent to judicial custody.
• Aug 21, 2013: Communal clashes were reported from Muzaffarnagar and police registered cases against 150 people and 14 persons were also taken into custody. But the measures taken were insufficient to avoid intensive rioting and arson that followed within a week.
• Aug 27, 2013:   This day was one of those unfortunate days, which witnessed eruption of riots between two religious communities at Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
• Sep 17, 2013: The riots ended on this day. The riots erupted on August 27, 2013, resulted in at least 62 deaths and injured 93 and left more than 50,000 displaced.

• Jan 13, 1964:   This day witnessed break out of Hindu-Muslim riots in the Indian city of Calcutta - now Kolkata - resulting in more than 100 deaths. 
  • The Hindu-Muslim riots proved to be a major setback in India's 16 year struggle to establish and maintain a secular state with freedom and equality for all religions.
  • It was the first incident of religious violence since 1950.
  • The clashes erupted in January 1964 after the disappearance of a precious relic from a mosque in Srinagar.
  • As a result anti-Hindu riots broke out in east Pakistan and 29 people were killed. This sparked retaliation against Muslims in rural areas of West Bengal and from there the riots spread.