Newslaundry asked Mishra why he had been arrested. He said: “I have been booked for hurting religious sentiments. I don’t know what religious sentiments I have hurt.” Mishra says one-and-a-half years ago, he had published that namaz had been offered on the moon. He claims an “idiot journalist from The Times of India termed the news as fake”. Mishra, however, insists it was real news. “The video is available on YouTube. The video was released by NASA, showing an American journalist who went to the moon and then offered namaz there. I even told the judge that I can show him the video if he wants.”