He added, “In my 60 years of life, I did not have such incidents. I was terrorised. I said, ‘Jai Shri Ram’. But they were not happy. One of them said, why are you talking so slowly and asked me to give a big shout. I started walking away from them. Fortunately, they did not harm me. They let me go.”

Dr Gadre said since the youth did not harm him, he did not complain to the police and instead narrated his ordeal to an old friend and senior journalist Anant Bagaitkar.