By PTI
NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a seventh particular person in reference to the brutal killing of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Rajasthan’s Udaipur final month, a spokesperson mentioned on Sunday.
The spokesperson mentioned Farhad Mohammad Sheikh, alias Babla, was arrested on Saturday night.
He was a “close criminal associate” of Riaz Akhtari, one of many two principal accused, and took an energetic half within the conspiracy to kill the tailor, the spokesperson mentioned.
Kanhaiya Lal was killed with a cleaver inside his tailoring store on June 28.
The grotesque assault by Riaz Akhtari, who can be known as Riyaz Attari, on the tailor was recorded on a telephone by Ghouse Mohammad, and the video was posted on-line.
They mentioned in a video later that they hacked Lal to demise to avenge an alleged insult to Islam.
The duo have been arrested inside hours of the killing.
Besides the duo, towards whom the proof is a self-shot video, the safety companies nabbed two extra individuals — recognized Mohsin and Asif — who’re alleged to be part of the conspiracy to unfold terror amongst the general public at giant.
Two extra accused — Mohammed Mohsin and Wasim — have been arrested subsequently for being a part of the legal conspiracy and serving to the 2 principal accused in finishing up a recce of the tailor’s store.
The probe companies have claimed to have discovered a number of Pakistani numbers on their WhatsApp accounts and mentioned that one of many accused was a part of some secret teams ostensibly meant for non secular actions.
In certainly one of these teams, it was alleged that Ghouse had been requested to do “something spectacular” to avenge the insult to Islam and the officers believed that this could possibly be the turning level the place the “barbaric” act of killing the tailor might have been hatched.
They mentioned that Mohsin’s place was used for sharpening the cleaver used within the killing and Asif had helped in finishing up the recce of the tailor’s store.
The NIA had on June 29 re-registered the case underneath the anti-terror Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act after taking it over from the Rajasthan Police.
The case was initially registered at Dhanmandi police station in Udaipur.
“NIA has re-registered a case under sections 452, 302, 153(A), 153(B), 295(A) and 34 of IPC and sections 16, 18 & 20 of UA(P) Act, 1967 against accused who have conspired, planned and committed the heinous murder,” the company spokesperson had mentioned.
“The accused persons had also circulated a video of the criminal act in the social media claiming responsibility for the murder in order to trigger panic and strike terror among the masses across the country,” the spokesperson had mentioned.