Anti-Terror Agency Chief Meets Amit Shah On Udaipur, Amravati Killings
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A tailor Kanhaiya Lal was killed by two men inside his shop in Udaipur, while a chemist shop owner Umesh Kolhe was killed in Amravati on June 21.
Days after the Ministry of Home Affairs directed National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take over the probe of the killings in Rajasthan's Udaipur and Maharashtra's Amravati, NIA chief Dinkar Gupta on Monday held a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his office in Delhi.
On June 28, a tailor Kanhaiyalal Kumar was killed by two men inside his shop in Udaipur, while a chemist shop owner Umesh Kolhe was killed in Amravati on June 21.
In Amravati killing case, a district court in Amravati sent the key accused Irfan Sheikh, the mastermind in the murder case to police custody till July 7. The accused, identified as Irfan Sheikh, was arrested by Amravati police in Nagpur on Sunday. The six accused have been identified as Mudassir Ahmad (22); Shah Rukh Pathan (25); Abdul Thoufique (24); Shoaib Khan (22); Atib Rashid (22) and Yusufkan Bahadur Khan (44).
Investigators so far believe that the chemist was killed allegedly in retaliation for a social media post supporting BJP's Nupur Sharma who had made controversial comments on the Prophet in a television debate.
