The police in Sambhal beefed up security a day before December 6, the date Babri mosque in Ayodhya was demolished in 1992.

On the administration's preparations for Friday prayers at the moque, District Magistrate Rajender Pensiya Pensiya said, "Thirty magistrates have been deployed in view of Friday prayers tomorrow. Today, a Peace Committee meeting is being held, and discussions with mosque leaders have also taken place."