The incident in question occurred when a Muslim boy met a Hindu girl in a temple in Girija village. Seeing them together in a temple, a group of thugs surrounded them. In the video that went viral on 25 May, sub-inspector Gagandeep Singh is shown holding the boy close to him, shielding him from the violent mob attempting to assault him.

Soon after the incident, a BJP MLA Rajkumar Thukral said if the Ramnagar police did not “wake up” to understand “anti-Hindu” sentiments in terms of this incident and other similar ones, then the Hindu Sena would be forced to come out and fight those threatening the basis of Hindu culture. But no threats were directed at Singh.

Sub-inspector Gagandeep Singh says he doesn’t know what the basis of these rumours about death threats to him is, and that he had only done what any police officer would do.