Following the incident, Section 144 (prohibit the gathering of four or more people in an area) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) was imposed in the Alappuzha district to prevent any untoward incident.
After the deadly explosion in Karachi, Pakistan which caused a bank building to collapse, some locals of the Sher Shah area took the opportunity to steal cash from the debris and even unearthed the iron safe of the bank from the rubble to smuggle it out of the site.