Kawal is a village in the Muzaffarnagar district of western Uttar Pradesh in northern India.

In 2013, a dispute between Hindus and Muslims in Kawal triggered the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots.

[2] On 7 September 2013, over 150,000 people from the neighbouring states of Haryana and Delhi gathered in Kawal village for a "Jat Mahapanchayat", many of them carrying weapons.

After the gathering, scores of vehicle carrying peacefully returning Jat youth were burned and many of the bodies were never recovered, as per estimate 23 tractors and 7 bikes were burned and washed away in Ganges till Bulandshahar but SDM of Jansat only reported 13 in his report to then CM and PM.

[7] It is located at 29.33° N 77.85° E. It has an average elevation of 232 meters (761 feet) above Mean Sea Level (MSL).