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  • NIA arrests seventh particular person in reference to Udaipur tailor’s killing

    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.

  • Udaipur homicide: Facebook removes video glorifying the crime; suspected Pakistani numbers recovered from PFI member

    By PTI

    UDAIPUR: Social media big Facebook has taken down a video glorifying the Udaipur homicide on the native police’s request, an officer mentioned.

    The video surfaced on a Facebook web page not too long ago and several other individuals supported it.

    Looking at a attainable risk to communal concord in Udaipur, the police wrote a letter to Facebook searching for its removing and the video was instantly taken down, Udaipur Superintendent of Police Vikas Sharma mentioned.

    He mentioned efforts are being made to determine the one who uploaded the video and motion shall be taken in opposition to her or him.

    Forty-six-year-old Kanhaiya Lal, a tailor, was hacked to dying at his tailoring store in Udaipur on June 28 over a publish that he had shared on social media in assist of now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, whose controversial comment in opposition to Prophet Mohammad drew widespread condemnation.

    Lal’s killing had sparked large outrage throughout the nation.

    Meanwhile, some suspected Pakistani telephone numbers have been recovered from the cell phone of a Popular Front of India (PFI) member who was arrested in Bhilwara district not too long ago, police mentioned on Friday.

    Accused Abdul Salam is at present below judicial custody, police sources mentioned.

    He was arrested below Section 151 of CrPC (arrest to stop commissioning of a cognizable offences) on Wednesday after he bought right into a heated argument with cops once they have been patrolling in Sanganer space, Circle Officer Ramchandra Choudhary mentioned.

    When his telephone was examined, some Pakistani numbers have been recovered, he mentioned.

    The native police have alerted the intelligence department, one other official mentioned, including the matter is being probed additional.

    Senior Congress chief Sachin Pilot on Friday met Kanhaiya Lal’s household and demanded the dying penalty for the culprits.

    He additionally known as for a speedy trial within the case.

    Lal was hacked to dying by two males, Riaz Akhtari and Ghouse Mohammad, with a cleaver at his store within the Dhan Mandi space right here on June 28 to avenge an “insult to Islam”.

    Pilot met Lal’s household right here and consoled them.

    Later, speaking to reporters, the Congress chief mentioned everybody desires that the accused needs to be given strict punishment and it shouldn’t be lower than the dying penalty.

    There needs to be a speedy trial within the case.

    Responding to a query on the failure of the intelligence system, Pilot mentioned the complete matter is being investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and motion shall be taken in keeping with the end result of the probe.

    Pilot mentioned correct safety preparations have been made for Lal’s household and they are going to be supplied all attainable assist.

    Five individuals, together with Akhtari and Mohammad, have been arrested in reference to Lal’s homicide.

    They are within the custody of the NIA.

  • Tailor killing: NIA arrests sixth accused

    By PTI

    JAIPUR: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday arrested a sixth particular person in reference to the killing of Kanhaiya Lal, a tailor, in Udaipur in Rajasthan and took him into custody until July 12, officers mentioned.

    Wasim Ali, who ran a meat store reverse the tailoring store of Kanhaiya Lal, was picked by the federal company Tuesday evening and questioned for his alleged function in serving to different accused perform a recce of the world.

    He was positioned below arrest on Wednesday and produced earlier than a chosen courtroom which remanded him within the custody of the NIA until July 12.

    Elaborate safety preparations have been made within the courtroom premises for the manufacturing of the accused.

    “After hearing the matter, the court sent Wasim Ali to the NIA custody till July 12,” Special Public Prosecutor T P Sharma mentioned.

    Lal was killed with a cleaver inside his tailoring store on June 28.

    The grotesque assault by Riaz Akhtari on the tailor was recorded on a telephone by Ghouse Mohammad, and it 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.

    Two different accused, recognized as Mohsin and Asif, have been arrested Thursday evening for allegedly being concerned within the conspiracy and recce of Kanhaiya Lal’s store.

    The fifth accused, Mohammad Mohsin, was arrested on Monday and despatched to police remand until July 12.

  • Udaipur homicide: Probe sought into operations of Dawat-e-Islami branches in India

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: A Kanpur connection to the Udaipur killing has emerged after the hyperlinks of Ghouse Mohammad, one of many assailants of Kanhaiya Lal, have reportedly been established with a Pakistan-based Islamic outfit  Dawat-e-Islami.

    As per the sources, the outfit has three centres in India and one in all them is in Kanpur with over 50,000 followers. The different two are in New Delhi and Mumbai.

    In Kanpur, the centre of Dawat-e- Islami is located in a mosque at Deputy Padav Gurbatullah Park. Its function had come underneath the scanner of legislation enforcement companies throughout the anti-CAA protests in 2019.

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    The president of the Kanpur chapter of the Sufi Khanqah Association, Mohammad Kausar Hasan Majeedi, has sought a probe into the operations of Dawat-e-Islami in Kanpur. 

    Majeedi claimed that Dawat-e-Islami radicalized the Muslim youths and motivated them for Jihad. The outfit was in information earlier additionally as Sufi Khanqah Association, a social group having branches throughout the nation,  had levelled prices of conversions towards it final 12 months. 

    “The outfit indulged within the conversion of non-Muslims residing in Islamic Gulf international locations. More than a dozen movies selling Islamic fundamentalism had been additionally launched by us to justify claims,” mentioned Majeedi.

    Moreover, Dawat-e-Islami had collected large funds within the type of donation by placing donation packing containers on the crossings in Muslim-dominated areas of Kanpur. 

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    Later, after the fees of utilizing funds for anti-national actions, the outfit had eliminated the donation packing containers.

    The sources claimed {that a} delegation of Pakistani Ulema had come to Kanpur in 1989. After this, a centre of the outfit was arrange in Kanpur. The sources additionally claimed that mainly, the outfit had the function of imparting ‘Deeni Talim’ to the believers of Islam in addition to popularizing Islam and publishing Islamic spiritual books.

    According to Majeedi, the Kanpur centre of Dawat-e-Islami had the function of reaching out to the Muslim youths of japanese UP and Bihar and radicalising them for Jihad.

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    The Association members, searching for anonymity, additionally claimed that they had been receiving threats from Pakistan as they’d been opposing the actions of Dawat-e-Islami. The Sufi Khanqah Association members mentioned that they’d reported the matter to DCP Raveen Tyagi searching for safety.

    On the opposite, the police sources mentioned that after getting the inputs from Udaipur, it was being investigated if each assailants of Udaipur killing had come to Kanpur earlier than the incident. Now the Kanpur police have began trying to find the members of the group working within the metropolis.

    Kanpur Police Commissioner Vijay Singh Meena additionally known as an emergency assembly for diving deep into the actions of Dawat-e-Islami as quickly as he bought the enter from Udaipur.

    The Kanpur police authorities created a metropolis safety plan with directions to authorities involved to extend police guard on delicate areas. Intelligence and IB had been additionally placed on excessive alert.
    Moreover, the police division is tracing the folks related to this group who got here underneath the scanner throughout anti-CAA stir and their numbers can be placed on surveillance. A strict vigil was additionally being maintained on social media posts, mentioned a senior police official of Kanpur.

  • Udaipur homicide is an act of terror: Asaduddin Owaisi

    By Express News Service

    BHOPAL: Terming the horrific killing of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Rajasthan’s Udaipur district as an “act of terror,” AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi demanded on Wednesday that the Congress authorities within the state provoke the strictest motion underneath IPC and CrPC provisions towards the accused.

    “The killing of Kanhaiya Lal by the two men, which was shot on camera, is an act of terror, just like the 2015 killing of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri (UP) and the 2017 killing of Pahlu Khan in Alwar (Rajasthan) too were acts of terror. Violence cannot be justified as means of dissent and protest, we condemn violence. We also reiterate our demand to arrest suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma,” Owaisi mentioned whereas interacting with journalists in Bhopal on Wednesday.

    He was additionally vital of those that killed the tailor, threatening on digital camera to behead the PM. “We’ve ideological differences with PM Modi, we are like two seas which can never meet. But that doesn’t mean, that we’ll support anyone for uttering such threats for our country’s PM.” 

    He additionally mentioned that “I put it on record that Muslims cannot come to power or change governments on their own anywhere in the Hindi heartland, so they should focus on increasing their numbers in power, by electing their own leaders in polls.” 

    On the Maharashtra disaster, Owaisi mentioned that the social gathering will determine its plan of motion on the ground take a look at within the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha in time. There are two AIMIM MLAs presently in Maharashtra.

    While slamming the Shiv Sena led authorities in Maharashtra over experiences of attainable renaming Aurangabad district as Sambhajinagar, the AIMIM chief mentioned that as a substitute of focussing on 
    protecting their flock collectively, they (Shiv Sena) are working at renaming Aurangabad.

    “Why isn’t the Maharashtra government working at addressing the drinking water crisis and farmers’ woes, which are the real problems facing Aurangabad,” questioned Owaisi.

    He additionally voiced opposition to the Modi authorities’s Agnipath scheme and the arrest of fact-checker and Alt News co-founder journalist Mohammed Zubair by the Delhi police on fees of injuring non secular sentiments.