The victim's uncle told OpIndia that a few days earlier, the Tulsi Mala of a Hindu Bengali student was forcibly removed by the Don Bosco School authorities.
Congress councilor Anwar Qadri, also known as "Anwar Dacoit," faces serious allegations including funding "Love Jihad," attempted murder, robbery, and land grabbing.
A district and sessions court in Meghalaya's Shillong on Saturday sent Sonam Raghuvanshi and Raj Kushwaha to 13 days of judicial custody in connection with the Raja Raghuvanshi murder case.
On June 19, a Muslim woman and her baby were murdered in Kishanganj district of Bihar. The case is from Telibasti in Pothia police station area, where the brutal murder of Ansari Begum and her six-month-old daughter by slitting their throats was solved by the police within 24 hours.
The attack followed a theft probe in a Muslim-dominated area. Police denied any communal angle, even though caste slurs were hurled and Hindus were threatened with beheading during their Raja festival preparations.