SP leader Gaurav Sharma alias Gaurav Songra is the prime accused is the murder of a man on March 1. Songra was accused by the victim's daughter in a molestation case filed in 2018.
The Uttar Pradesh government had submitted a copy of a front-page story by Siddique Kappan in Thejas, dating back to November 30, 2011, wherein he had claimed that Al-Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden was a 'martyr'.