Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, July 4: Dinkar Gupta, the director of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), met with Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday at Shah’s office in Delhi, just days after the Ministry of Home Affairs ordered the NIA to take charge of the investigation into the killings in the Indian states of Maharashtra’s Amravati and Rajasthan’s Udaipur.
Two guys assassinated a tailor named Kanhaiyalal Kumar on June 28 in his Udaipur business, while on June 21 Umesh Kolhe, the owner of a pharmacy shop, was killed in Amravati.
A district court in Amravati ordered the main suspect in the Amravati murder case, Irfan Sheikh, to remain in police custody until July 7. Irfan Sheikh, the accused, was taken into custody by Amravati police on Sunday in Nagpur.
Investigators currently hold the opinion that the chemist’s murder was allegedly carried out in retaliation for a social media post endorsing BJP candidate Nupur Sharma, who had made derogatory remarks against the Prophet during a television discussion.
The defendants in the Udaipur case identified themselves as Riyaz Akhtari and Ghouse Mohammad in the video. In the video, Riyaz is seen using a sharp object to strike Kanhaiya Lal, 47, while Ghouse records the incident on his phone.
