Five persons were arrested on Monday for allegedly being part of a mob that barged into a cafe in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly on December 27 and assaulted a group of students who were taking part in a birthday celebration, The Indian Express reported.

The mob accused two Muslim men, who were part of the gathering, of “love jihad” and attacked them. Videos of the assault sparked outrage on social media on Sunday.

Love jihad is a Hindutva conspiracy theory that Muslim men trick Hindu women into romantic relationships with the aim of converting them to Islam. The Union home ministry has told Parliament that Indian law has no provision defining such a term.

The police in Bareilly filed a case against two men named Rishabh Thakur and Deepak Pathak, and 25 unidentified persons. However, Thakur and Pathak, believed to be the key accused persons, were not among the five arrested on Monday, The Indian Express quoted unidentified officials as saying.

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Those arrested were identified as Prince Singh, Aakash, Ashish Kumar, Mridul Dubey and Deepak, The Times of India reported. They were produced before court, which remanded them to judicial custody, Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.

Reports had earlier said that Thakur and Pathak were linked to the Bajrang Dal. However, the Bareilly coordinator of the Hindutva group, Aryan Chaudhary, claimed that they had no association with the outfit.

Initially, the police had filed a case against the Muslim students and the cafe owner for “breach of peace” under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. They were briefly detained and were released later in the day.

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This led many on social media to question why the police detained the victims of the assault, rather than taking action against the attackers.

The student whose birthday celebration was disrupted on December 27 said that her reputation was ruined after videos of the incident went viral online, The Times of India reported.

“Everyone on social media is saying to me that I was part of love jihad,” the 20-year-old was quoted as saying. “I can’t even step out of my house. I would kill myself if no strict action is taken against them [accused].”