Total accused 101 identified in this case .Deshmukh said that no Muslim involvement has been found during the investigation. News agency ANI quoted him as saying, “A Special IG level officer in CID is investigating the matter. But I would like to mention that police arrested 101 persons within 8 hrs of the offence. We’re releasing the names of accused via WhatsApp today, there’s no Muslim in that list.”
While debunking the sound that was heard in the video that surfaced in connection to the incident, Deshmukh said, “There was a sound heard in the video ‘Oye Bas’, people circulated it online and some called it ‘Shoeb Bas’. All state mechanism is fighting the pandemic & some people tried to bring communal angle in this matter.”
