After social media backlash, a self-proclaimed yoga teacher, Ira Trivedi, who runs a show on national broadcaster Doordarshan, has taken to Twitter today to proclaim that she is a strict vegetarian and respects Hindu religion.
"Better to leave a place where you can't even pray to your god," a villager reportedly said. The residents of this Bareilly village are living with fear facing persecution from the Muslim community.
OpIndia reached out to SP of Baghpat police station who has asserted that Imam Imlaq-Ur-Rehman was not made to chant Jai Shree Ram, his beard was not pulled and there was no religious undertone to this assault