Amravati killing: Umesh was friends with accused Yusuf Khan, claims brother
India Today
The brother of the chemist who was killed in Amravati nearly 10 days ago has claimed that the deceased was friends with one of the accused, Yusuf Khan.
More than ten days after a chemist was killed in Maharashtra's Amravati, his younger brother, Mahesh Kolhe, claimed that he was friends with one of the accused, Yusuf Khan. He further said that Khan also attended his last rites.
The accused, Yusuf Khan, was a member of the WhatsApp group, named Black Freedom, to which Umesh was also added. The latter forwarded a post supporting Nupur Sharma to this group, after which Yusuf Khan sent that post to another group, named Rahbariya Group, to which the killer and mastermind, Irfan, was added. A conspiracy to kill Kolhe was allegedly hatched after this incident.
Meanwhile, the post-mortem report on Sunday revealed that his brain nerve, breathing tube, food pipe and eye vein were damaged due to the knife attack.
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The report also revealed that the wound was 5 inches wide, 7 inches long and 5 inches deep.
Irfan Khan, the prime accused in the case, who was on the run, was arrested from Nagpur on July 2. According to police, Khan allegedly hatched a conspiracy to kill Kolhe and roped in five others, promising pay and a safe escape in a car after the killing. The other accused have been identified as Yusuf Khan (44), Muddsir Ahmed (22), Shahrukh Pathan (25), Abdul Thoufique (24), Shoaib Khan (22) and Atib Rashid (22), all residents of Amravati and daily wage workers. A total of seven accused have been arrested so far.
Chemist Umesh Prahladrao Kolhe was stabbed to death in Amravati on June 21, a week before two men hacked to death Kanhaiya Lal, a tailor in Rajasthan's Udaipur.
