[6][7][8][9][10][11] Following the post made on 2 July by the school boy, a mob of an estimated 5,000 people blockaded the Baduria police station, demanding that the accused be brought before the crowd.

[15][16] A violent mob put up road blockades at several places and attacked members of other community, besides destroying many shops.

[20] The Union government deployed four Border Security Force (BSF) companies containing a total of 400 personnel to check the violence in the region.

[25][26] Vijeta Malik who is reported to be the Haryana State Executive Member of BJP allegedly posted a well-known scene of a Bhojpuri movie Aurat Khilona Nahi and cited it as an incident in Baduaria clashes where Hindu women were severely abused and the crowd just watched.

Despite several appeals from Kolkata and West Bengal Police,[30][31] sharing of fake news continued and tensions were exacerbated.

[36][37] BJP MLA T. Raja Singh Lodh made a statement asking Hindus to respond "as they did in Gujarat, to prevent Bengal from becoming Bangladesh, or face being banished as they were from Kashmir".