A minor child named Mohammad Sameer told OpIndia how one Imran Hafeez had coerced him and many other children to participate in the Haldwani 'protest.'
Maulana Sajid Rashidi, earlier tried to corner the Uttar Pradesh government for surveying the unrecognised madarsas. On September 14, he urged madarsa authorities to welcome state surveying authorities with slippers and shoes.