On 10th May 2020, Muzaffarnagar resident Abhinav Singhal filed a case against Dhananjay Singh and his partner Vikram at the Linebazar police station. The case was registered under sections of kidnapping, extortion, conspiracy and others.
Speaking about the Samajwadi Party’s Yadav vote bank, the Maulana said, “To a large extent even the Yadavs have drifted towards other parties. In the political regard, Akhilesh Yadav is moving towards a ‘zero’ point in Uttar Pradesh. He wants to ride on the shoulders of Congress and move ahead, however, but there is no visible success in it.”
BJP MP Uprendra Singh Rawat stated that his opponents committed this act to tarnish his image as soon as he received the party's ticket from Barabanki. He also pressed that the video footage making rounds on social media is fully doctored.