Muzaffarnagar (UP): Tension prevailed in Muzaffarnagar when a group of Dalits was prevented by the district authorities from installing a statue in memory of a man killed during an agitation in 2018, police said on Tuesday.

The incident was reported from Gadla village on Monday, Circle Officer Ram Mohan Sharma said. According to police, the Dalits wanted to install the statue of Amresh at Sant Ravidas temple here. Ambresh was killed during Dalit agitation here last year.