The victim was a minor who used to sell pens around Iqbal Maidan. According to police, the boy was taken along by the accused on the pretext of helping them settle a fight.
Amanpal released a video claiming that conversion or circumcision did not happen. He stated that neither he nor his children had undergone religious conversion or circumcision.
In a case of an attempt to commit unnatural sex with a minor victim, a single bench of the Kerala High Court reduced the sentence of the convict to one day.