Nahid Afrin. Pic/YouTube

Forty-six Muslim clerics in Assam have issued a fatwa against singer Nahid Afrin, asking her to stop performing in public. Afrin was the first runner-up in the 2015 season of the popular musical reality TV show Indian Idol Junior.

According to a report in Times of India, cops are probing whether the fatwa was a reaction to Nahid performing songs against terrorism. "We are looking at this angle as well," ADG (special branch) Pallab Bhattacharya told the paper.