He later said that he was being forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram”.
However, the police are treating this whole case as suspicious.
SP Chandauli, said, He’s admitted in a hospital with 45% burns. He had given different statements to different people, so it seemed suspicious. It seemed he had been tutored. Police monitored CCTV footage of places he had mentioned & found that he had not been at any of those places.
A senior police official in Varanasi said that he was not aware of the incident.