Members of a Hindutva group blackened the mural of the last Mughal emperor, , at the Ghaziabad railway station on Friday, mistaking it to be of the sixth Mughal ruler, Aurangzeb, reported The Times of India.

Shouting “Aurangzeb murdabad”, or down with Aurangzeb, members of the Hindu Raksha Dal sprayed black paint over the 16-feet-tall mural of Bahadur Shah Zafar. The incident reportedly disrupted several passengers.

“Before we could realise what was happening, they climbed atop each other and started smearing the portrait with colour,” an unidentified station official was quoted as saying by The Times of India. “We tried to convince them, but they thought they were right.”

The official added that the members also wrote “HRD” on the mural and shouted “Hindu Raksha Dal Zindabad”, or long live Hindu Raksha Dal.

A case against unknown persons was registered under the Railways Act sections pertaining to unlawful entry upon or into any part of a railway (147) and defacing (166).

The mural of Bahadur Shah Zafar was painted by the non-profit organisation by CS Disha Foundation in 2016. They had also painted the portraits of Tatya Tope, Mangal Pandey and Rani Laxmi Bai, among other historical figures.

“The painting in question is certainly not of Aurangzeb, but of Bahadur Shah Zafar,” Udita Tyagi of...