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?"
Special SC/ST court in Barabanki sentenced Mohammad Salman to life imprisonment for raping a Dalit girl, attempting forced religious conversion, and hurling casteist abuses. Notably, Salman got in touch with her posing as a Hindu man “Sumit Kanojia"
The SC had allowed the Uttar Pradesh government to utilise the temple funds for purchasing 5 acres of land around the temple for the development of a corridor.
Reports say that Afzal was earlier arrested in this case. His parents apologised to the girl and got him released from jail, but as soon as he came out, Afzal again started threatening the girl to convert to Islam or he would do her ‘Sar tan se juda’ (beheading).