Also in May 2015, the sisters said in an interview with Geetanjali Gayatri of The Tribune, that they had been they attracting undue attention where ever they go. They said that their college was receiving large numbers of RTI applications regarding their attendance and grades. One of the sisters, Aarti, told the reporter that they would have been better off dead like the Moga girl, referring to an incident in which a girl died after being thrown off of a bus in the Moga district. In the same month, Divya Arya of BBC Hindi travelled to the town. Pooja told Arya that they had no intention of fighting back in the future if they are harassed. They also said that they were asked embarrassing questions during the polygraph test.
