Ansari's wife said that her husband was mercilessly beaten because he was a Muslim. She demanded justice. On 25 June, 11 arrests were made, and two policemen were suspended for "not reporting the seriousness of the issue to the higher authorities" and " a case of lynching on the very same day"  An Special Investigation Team was assigned to investigate the case. The Saraikela-Kharsawan district police charged 11 of the 13 named accused in the case on 29 July. The murder charges were then dropped, but later reinstated. A medical panel of five members was formed to look into the death. The resulting medical report concluded that Tabrez Ansari suffered a skull fracture caused by a "hard and blunt object", a subarachnoid haemorrhage, and clotting of blood in the lower layer of the skull; and suggests that these injuries led to the cardiac arrest that resulted in Ansari's death. The consumption of poison was ruled out. On 9 September 2019, the police dropped the murder charges by giving cardiac arrest as the reason of death, which led to an uproar. Due to this, the police were accused of weakening the case. On 18 September 2019, the police filed a supplementary chargesheet after obtaining the opinion of a board of doctors of MGM Medical College and Hospital, reinstating the murder charges. The lynching resulted in public anger, debates on the use of "Jai Shri Ram" as an attack slogan and multiple protests, including one in New Delhi held near the parliament house, where protesters chanted slogans against the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and demanded an end to anti-Muslim violence. Modi commented on the lynching in parliament, that he was pained to hear about the incident and calling for "the strictest possible punishment to the accused". Rahul Gandhi, at the time President of the Indian National Congress, called the lynching a "blot on humanity". Vishwa Hindu Parishad called the lynching "a conspiracy of secularists", which VHP Joint General Secretary Surendra Jain blamed on "the Khan Market Mafia, which has repeatedly been maligning Hindu society, India and humanity."