Claim 6: Shuja says he sought political asylum in the US as he felt threatened in India. He claims that after he reached the US, he was in the hospital for 18 days and then in detention for 16 days. When he was released from detention on June 17, 2014, his friend told him his house had been burnt down, his parents had died in the fire, and his wife and kids were missing—this would be during the “cover” of the Kishanbagh riots. The friend sent him a “paper cutting” dated May 14, 2014. In the same interview transcript, Shuja mentions May 17 as the date his house burnt down.