OpIndia also reached out to Qadir's neighbour shopkeeper. On one hand, he denied knowing anything about the incident, on the other, he blamed the police. The shopkeeper claimed that Saurabh Deshwal died of a police bullet. He said, "Saurabh died of a police bullet. Were we sitting with bullets in our hands at night?"
A man named Ahsan who posed as Rahul, his father Akhlaq, and brother Imran were arrested for forcing a Hindu woman to convert to Islam after deceiving her into marriage.
When the Baraatis objected to this, the situation took a violent turn as a significant number of Islamists gathered and started pelting stones at Hindus and assaulting them. The accused also allegedly robbed jewellery and cash from the wedding procession members
On 25th January, Ghaziabad Police arrested a man named Imran for allegedly repeatedly raping a Hindu married woman and attempting to convert her to Islam
On the 16th of December, journalist Swati Goel Sharma published a thread on X, wherein she divulged the findings of her ground investigation from the Sewa Nagar colony in Ghaziabad. In a video shared by Sharma, one of the accused Ravi was seen trying to defend himself by saying his government document is proof that he is still a Hindu and was not involved in conversion activities.
The incident reportedly unfolded in the Modinagar Police Station area when a person named Prakash Singh went to the same hotel with his friend and noticed the accused spitting on the rotis. To prove this, he made a video of the worker. When he complained about this act to the hotel owner, the hotel owner, Anuj, and his associate Abid attacked Prakash and his friend.
Videos of the altercation between police and lawyers emerged on social media showing cops employing lathi-charge to drive out lawyers from the courtroom.