Mother of Kamlesh Tiwari referred to Yogi Adityanath as her elder son and said that she felt good after meeting him. She also demanded that justice should be served to her son.
The Khilafat movement propelled the religious-national sentiments among Indian Muslims who until then largely stayed away from the mainstream political activity.
UP DGP OP Singh claimed that prima facie, the murderers of Kamlesh Tiwari appeared to have been 'radicalized by the comment he made' on Prophet Muhammad in 2015.