The extremist group Bajrang Dal alleged that the prayer incident was linked to "Love Jihad" or religious conversion.

Other weapons were also decorated with flowers during the religious ceremony.

The assailants, who quickly fled the scene after the shooting, left Gogamedi wounded inside his home. In a disturbing turn of events, gangster Rohit Godara, associated with the notorious Lawrence Bishnoi gang, claimed responsibility for the murder through a Facebook post shortly after the incident.

Anju returned to New Dehli via the Wagah border earlier this week. After being interrogated by Punjab police and the Intelligence Bureau, she was allowed to go to her home town Rajasthan’s Bhiwadi city. But she has not reached there yet.

The heavy rains swept away houses and wiped out livestock

“Hamain Pakistan main he goli mar dain lekin India wapis na bhejain,” they say