Bhopal, June 20 :    Bhopal, June 20:  Who is Arif Masood? For the Madhya Pradesh police, he is the most-wanted under cases of rioting with arms, provoking others with intent to cause rioting, assaulting and injuring policemen and numerous other grave sections of the IPC. Records say he is the district president of the Youth Congress and runs a private college in the city. But the Congress office here vehemently denies knowing anyone by that name. Asked whether the party will take action against Masood for instigating and leading a communal riot yesterday, state PCC chief Radhakishan Malviya said: 'Who is this Masood? We don't know any Arif Masood.' Yesterday afternoon, Arif Masood had led a violent mob armed with choppers, swords, petrol bombs and stones to riot in front of a cinema in old Bhopal which was screening Gadar, a film produced by action-hero Sunny Deol. The film is a love story between a Sikh youth and a Muslim girl against the backdrop of Partition. Masood later told reporters that his community had only reacted to the objectionable way in which Gadar has treated Islam. He said the film showed heroine Amisha Patel as a Muslim girl who married a Sikh youth and then offered namaaz wearing sindoor on her forehead. Police have arrested 40 people in connection with the rioting since last afternoon but Masood is still 'absconding'. He was last seen mounted atop a vehicle directing the angry mob, armed with swords and choppers to surround the cinema and attack the police. Chief minister Digvijay Singh has taken a firm stand after the rioting. The involvement of Masood in yesterday's rioting has angered Digvijay since only four days ago he had made a public statement in Jabalpur, stating that his government would approach the Centre with a demand to ban all extremist communal organisations, including the Bajrang Dal and SIMI from Madhya Pradesh. At midnight, a huge police contingent reached Masood's residence in old Bhopal. A hostile mob awaited the police when they tried to arrest Masood. Here, too, the mob turned violent and pelted stones at random. Till 3 am this morning, a Madhya Pradesh police force stayed put outside Masood's residence but the man still remains untraced. A large police contingent, including the Rapid Action Force, has been deployed in the affected Lily Talkies area. Police superintendent Arun Pratap Singh told The Telegraph that Gadar is being screened at the hall and the situation is under control. The film was screened yesterday too for the evening and night shows, he claimed.