Ghaziabad, Feb. 26 -- A Hindutva man forced an elderly Muslim shopkeeper and his employees to shut down his mutton shop by threatening to "set the store on fire" if it remained open on Tuesdays.

The incident reportedly took place in Kaila Bhatta village in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad under the Kotwali police station limits. The man, identified as a leader of a Hindutva organisation, Rashtriya Hindu Veer Sena, Satyam Pandit, claimed that the shop is not allowed to sell meat near a temple on Tuesdays.

A video of the incident from Tuesday, February 24, was shared by Pandit on his Facebook account on Wednesday, February 25, with the caption, "We will not allow any Muslim to sell meat in Ghaziabad on Tuesday. Today, we went to Kaila Bhatta and...