On August 24th, District Magistrate (DM) Ankit Kumar Agarwal appointed a three-member committee to investigate a video of a teacher, Tanveer Ayesha, removing tilak off students' foreheads that was circulated on social media. The incident occurred at a school in Bhanera village, Kiratpur block.
A students alleged that a teacher of the state-sponsored Raghunathganj Higher Girls School in West Bengal's Murshidabad district asked her not to wear tilak and Tulsi mala to school
ISIS terrorists Atif Muzaffar and Mohammad Faisal Khan shot the retired Hindu teacher in broad daylight in October 2016 after seeing a Kalawa on his wrist and a Tilak on his forehead