Tailor killed in udaipur

• One of the accused, Mohammad Riyas Ansari, was in contact with Pakistan-based terror groups. Gulam Gaus had visited Karachi in 2014. Before killing Kanhaiya Lal, they had watched many ISIS videos and made multiple calls to Pakistan, said sources in the police and the Special Investigation Team formed by the Ashok Gehlot government. • Riyas Ansari, sources said, was in touch with a Pakistan-based terror organisation called Dawaat-e-Islam. The other accused has gone to Nepal twice and was in touch with a few terror groups. He also had connections in Dubai, sources said. • Riyas was waiting for Kanhaiya Lal to open his shop for the last one week. On June 17, he made a video where he said after an "act" he will make his video viral. He had called upon others to join him as well, sources said. • Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot tweeted saying a preliminary investigation has revealed that the murder was done to spread terror and the killers had links in other nations. A case has been registered under stringent provisions of UAPA, he said. • The state government has ordered a compensation of Rs 31 lakh for the family members of Kanhaiya Lal. • Treating the killing of Kanhaiya Lal as a terror incident, the centre asked the National Investigation Agency earlier today to probe the brutal murder. "The involvement of any organisation and international links will be thoroughly investigated," the home ministry said in a tweet. • The killers - Gos Mohammad and Riyas Ansari – were ...

Around 2.30 in the afternoon, 47-year-old Kanhaiyya Lal, a green cap on his head, was at his tailoring shop in Udaipur’s Dhan Mandi area, measuring Mohammad Riyaz Akhtari’s chest with a tape. As Gaus Mohammed filmed the events that were to follow, Akhtari began hacking Lal’s neck with a knife. Lal’s last words in the video were a repeated “kya hua” (what happened), that tapered off into a scream. Udaipur beheading: Accused have been arrested from Rajasthan's Rajsamand. A local resident told HT that Lal was originally from the Salumber village of Udaipur, and lived in Udaipur’s Sector 11. Survived by two children, aged 17 and 19, Lal was married twice, the children from his second wife. For the past two decades, Lal worked as a tailor and had a shop in Udaipur’s walled city area of Hathipol, close to Dhan Mandi. Neighbours of Lal, said on condition of anonymity, that around two weeks ago Lal shared a clip of now suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma where she allegedly used provocative words for the Prophet, on WhatsApp. “His family members have always said that he was not well versed in the use of the mobile, and the post may have been uploaded by children playing with his phone,” the neighbor said. Still, it caused consternation among Muslim residents of his locality who made a complaint to the police. An FIR registered against Lal under sections 295(A) and 153(A) said that he had made a provocative post against the Prophet which had hurt the sentiments of the Muslim co...

He had been taking the measurement of one of the two men, who suddenly brought out a cleaver and charged at Lal, a video shared by the assailants on social media shows. " Kya hua? Batao toh sahi (What happened? Tell me)," the tailor can be heard asking in the chilling clip that has sparked public horror. A ban on large gatherings has been imposed in Rajasthan for one month after the Following the post, Lal was arrested on 10 June in an FIR registered against him at Dhanmandi Police Station, under IPC sections 295 A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings) and 153 A (promoting enmity between groups and disrupting harmony). The case had been filed based on the complaint of Nazim Ahmad, an Udaipur resident. On 15 June, Kanhaiya Lal had submitted a written complaint saying that he was receiving threat calls and had sought police protection. In his letter to the police, Lal had said that Nizam Ahmad had allegedly been conducting a reconnaissance of his shop for the past three days and was not allowing him to open it. “I have heard that they will try to kill me as soon as I open my shop,” he said. Kanhaiya Lal had skipped work for several days after he received the threats, his wife Jashoda told NDTV. A local BJP leader has alleged that the police failed to act on Lal's appeal, leading to the loss of his life. ADG (Law and Order) Hawa Singh Ghumaria has stated that the concerned SHO had called the persons who had allegedly been threating Lal. "And t...

Indian police have made fresh arrests over the murder of a Hindu tailor in Rajasthan, which sparked tensions between the Hindu majority and Muslim minority and a clampdown on protests and the internet to prevent them from escalating. Three senior police officials said on Saturday that two Muslim men based in Rajasthan were being held for planning Teli’s murder in his shop in Udaipur, a popular tourist destination. “We have now arrested the two masterminds, and previously we had arrested two men who committed the heinous crime,” said Prafulla Kumar, a senior police official based in Udaipur. The murder was filmed and posted online, allegedly as a response to the victim’s support for a politician’s derogatory remarks. The victim, Kanhaiya Lal Teli, had allegedly made a social media post supporting Nupur Sharma – a former spokesperson for the party of Narendra Modi, the prime minister – who made anti-Islam comments in May. Read more Kumar said internet services were being gradually restored and security forces continued to be on alert. An angry mob including some lawyers slapped and shoved the four accused in the murder case when they were presented before a trial court on Saturday. Judges from the supreme court said on Friday that Sharma must apologise to the whole nation after her remarks intensified religious fault lines in India, angered Islamic nations and triggered diplomatic strains. Local media reported a separate incident on 21 June in which a chemist was stabbed to ...

Fearing outbreaks of religious violence, police in the Indian state of Rajasthan banned public gatherings and suspended internet services a day after two Muslims posted a video claiming responsibility for killing a Hindu tailor in the city of Udaipur. Two suspects were being interrogated by federal investigators on Wednesday, while state police were on guard against any unrest in the north-western state. “We are under strict orders to prevent any form of protests or demonstrations scheduled to condemn the murder,” Hawa Singh Ghumaria, a senior police officer in Rajasthan, told Reuters, adding that the crime had sent “shock waves through the country’’. Brandishing a meat cleaver, two bearded men said in the video that they were avenging an insult to the prophet Mohammed caused by the victim. They also alluded to Nupur Sharma, a former spokesperson for the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), whose India’s home minister, Amit Shah, said in a tweet that federal police had taken over the investigation into “the brutal murder” of Kanhaiya Lal Teli, giving the victim’s full name. Read more “The involvement of any organisation and international links will be thoroughly investigated,” Shah said. Late on Wednesday, a spokesperson from Pakistan’s foreign ministry rejected reports in some Indian media that linked the suspects to a Pakistan-based organisation. The two assailants had slashed Teli’s head and throat in an attack while the tailor was taking measurements,...

Jaipur: The murder of a tailor, filmed by his killers, has sparked massive tension in Udaipur. Large gatherings have been banned and internet suspended across Rajasthan for 24 hours. The attackers seen on camera, Gos Mohammad and Riyaz, have been arrested. Here are the Top 10 points in this big story: • Two men entered Kanhaiya Lal's shop at a crowded market in Udaipur this afternoon and • A video filmed by them showed Kanhaiya Lal measuring one of the men before he was attacked. The killers gloated on camera about the murder and also threatened Prime Minister Narendra Modi. • The police, who have declared • The murder is being treated as a • Kanhaiya Lal had expressed support on social media for the former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, whose provocative comments on Prophet Mohammed had set off a huge controversy at home and abroad. Sources said the tailor had been threatened several times by some groups even after his arrest over the social media post. • Senior police officer Hawa Singh Ghumaria, the Additional Director of law and order, told reporters they had received orders "not to spare anyone". Mr Ghumaria also asked the media not to broadcast the video because of its highly inflammatory content. "It's too grisly to watch. • The police said the tailor had received threats from certain organisations after his posts in support of Nupur Sharma in the prophet remarks row. "On June 10, there was a police complaint against him... He was arrested and presented in court. On...

A 40-year-old tailor in Udaipur named KanhaiyaLal Teli was murdered by two Muslim men on Tuesday afternoon for his post on social media in support of Nupur Sharma 10 days ago. A video posted by Delhi BJP politician Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga records the entire incident. The video shows two men entire his shop named Supreme Tailors near Bhootmahal located in Dhanmondi pretending to be customers and stab him in the neck multiple times. He dies on the spot. Kanhaiyalal was receiving multiple threat calls for about 10 days after his post in support of the ex-BJP spokesperson, he even filed a complaint regarding the same at a local police station. Scared by the threats, he opened his shop after six days on Tuesday. Both the murderers have nowbeen arrested in Rajsamand district, Udaipur. The arrested accused, namely Rafiq Mohammed and Abdul Jabbar, are both the residents of Surajpole, Udaipur, reported police. Rajasthan | Udaipur beheading: The arrested accused, namely Rafiq Mohammed & Abdul Jabbar, are both the residents of Surajpole, Udaipur: Police — ANI MP/CG/Rajasthan (ANI_MP_CG_RJ) Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot addressed the gruesome incident and twitted, "I condemn the heinous murder of a youth in Udaipur. Strict action will be taken against all the criminals involved in this incident and the police will go to the bottom of the crime. I appeal to all parties to maintain peace." उदयपुर में हुई घटना बहुत ही दुःखद है और उसकी जितनी निंदा की जाए उतनी कम है, बहुत चिंता वाली बात है ...