Speaking to OpIndia, Kishan said Abdul Hamid and other rioters had planned to make Gopal Mishra's body disappear so the case would have been of a missing person and not murder.
The accused was vandalised the idol of Muthyalamma temple in Telangana’s Kurmaguda region in Hyderabad was also involved in similar vandalism incidents in Mumbai in 2022.
Ram Gopal Mishra's mother confirmed that her son's toe nails were ripped out when she saw his body, confirming torture inflicted on him, presumably by Islamists who killed him.
Some people feared that Abdul Hamid, at whose residence Ram Gopal Mishra was murdered, and his family already crossed over to Nepal following the murder in Bahraich.