In what appears to be a direct result of public outrage, Maharsashtra Police has finally registered a case against VHP leader Praveen Togadia. Togadia has been in the dock for his hate speech in Nanded, Maharashtra. Online clippings of the inflammatory speech given on the 22nd of January show Togadia thundering about happenings in Assam and Bhagalpur in Bihar in an apparent response to Akbaruddin Owaisi's hate diatribe earlier in December. But Swamy has said that the speech was not a hate speech instead was a reply to question.