Hours after Naseeruddin Shah said that he's scared for his children in today's India, Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy said that he shares the actor's indignation.

Referring to the 1990 Bantala rape and murder case, Roy said that he's neither angry nor scared as mob violence in West Bengal is something he's familiar of.

"I fully share Naseeruddin Shah's indignation... But I'm neither angry nor scared. For us from West Bengal mob violence is old hat. Ever heard of Bantala? Two persons were killed by a mob and the surgeon fainted while doing autopsy," he tweeted.

I fully share Naseeruddin Shah's indignation https://t.co/iTHIo5Q7Fx
But I'm neither angry nor scared. For us from West Bengal mob violence is old hat. Ever heard of Bantala? Two persons were killed by a mob and the surgeon fainted while doing autopsy https://t.co/tK5jpFRC61

— Tathagata Roy (@tathagata2) December 20, 2018

"The 1990 Bantala rape-and-murder case involved two state government [West Bengal] and one UNICEF lady officers and a driver. The surgeon examining the dead woman fainted when she discovered a metal torch in her vagina. The driver bore 43 wounds in his body. His penis was smashed by the attackers."

Naseeruddin Shah said he was worried because he imagines a situation where his children may be surrounded by an angry mob and asked: "Are you Hindu or Muslim?"

Shah said that there is a "poison" that has spread in the Indian society.

"It will be very difficult to capture this djinn [genie] back into the bottle. There is complete impunity for those who take the law into their own hands," Naseeruddin says.

Referring to the recent Bulandshahr violence, Shah said, "We have already witnessed that the death of a cow has more significance [in today's India] than that of a police officer."

Watch the full video here: