The protests in Mumbra were illegally organised so the police had booked around 200 persons in the case. Police said that the protesters defied police orders against the gathering.
About $13.7 million has been disbursed to a leftist advocacy group by the name of 'Tides Centre', which funds non-profit organisations that justified Hamas' attacks on Israel and the subsequent killing of 1400 civilians.
Suhaib CT, the state chief of Student Youth Movement (SYM), the youth wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind outfit, said that Hamas is not a terrorist organisation but a 'resistance movement'