The building hosting both India Today and Aaj Tak in Bangalore was surrounded on Friday by protesters led by Anjuman-e-Imamia, a Shia Muslim group. Their protest was in retaliation to Aaj Tak journalist Rohit Sardana’s ‘derogatory’ tweet which they say hurt religious sentiments and attempted to create ‘disharmony’ between different religious communities.

On 16 November, Sardana had posted a tweet in the context of S Durga and asked why the title of 'Sexy' was only put after a Hindu goddess and asked if the same could be done for other names as well. In his tweet, he had referred to women in Islam and Christianity including Prophet Muhammad's wife Ayesha, daughter Fatima and Mary, Jesus Christ's mother.