Maulana Sadat Ali did not return to his house after he went to Muzaffarnagar railway station yesterday to book a ticket, SHO Dhananjay Mishra said.
The SHO said the cleric had come to his village and was booking a ticket for Rajasthan.
A missing person's complaint has been registered and police are searching for the cleric, he said.
Meanwhile, the villagers and the cleric's family members said they would start agitating if the police fails to trace the cleric today.