The Resistance Front (TRF), a Kashmiri separatist militant group, which according to Indian claims is a "shadow organisation" of Lashkar-e-Taiba,[7] denied that it was a terror strike.

[10] After 14 days of the incident, two unidentified gunmen reached Dangri village of Rajouri district and started firing in the residential houses on 1 January 2023.

[11] The incident occurred around 7 p.m. IST, when two unidentified men allegedly entered houses of Hindu residents, checked the victim's Aadhaar identity cards, and then started firing on them with the rifles.

[1] On the evening of 1 January 2023 at around 7 p.m., suspected militants broke into at least three houses of a Hindu community in Dangri village in Jammu and Kashmir's border region of Rajouri and opened fire, leaving four civilians dead and six more injured.

[16] The mortal remains of six persons, including two minor cousins, slain in twin attacks in Rajouri district were cremated on 3 January 2023 in their native village.

[20] As of 5 January 2023[update], Jammu and Kashmir Police officials believe that some recently recruited but well-trained 'hybrid terrorists' are responsible for the killings in Rajouri.

[21] Regional J&K parties blamed New Delhi's policies in Kashmir and the administration of Lieutenant Governor (LG) Manoj Sinha for the recent spike in violence in the Union Territory.

[6] The politicians from Kashmir denounced the killings in Rajouri and criticised the LG-led government for failing to root out terrorism even after Article 370 had been abrogated for four years.

Farooq Abdullah, a former chief minister of J&K, denounced the attacks that occurred on Sunday and Monday and said that terrorists do not distinguish between their victims' religions—whether they are Muslims or Hindus.

[22] In the wake of the first attack, Omar Abdullah, the vice president of the National Conference, questioned the authorities for allegedly failing to follow the usual operating procedure.

[27] In response to attacks in the Rajouri, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) would send an additional 18 companies to Jammu and Kashmir.

[31] On the evening of 2 January 2023, Manoj Sinha ordered an in-depth investigation into "security lapses" in the wake of twin terror attacks.

[33] On 7 January 2023, Vikas Kundal, the deputy commissioner of Rajouri, visited to the Baljaralan area to check on the distribution of guns and ammunition to the village defence guards (VDGs), which will increase security in the region.

The Vishva Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal staged a similar rally in Udhampur in response to the killings of innocent people in Rajouri.

[39] On 4 January 2023 late night, three motorcycle-riding persons jumped a police checkpoint at Thalka near Nowshera and fled into a forest in Rajouri district, setting off a search operation.