Tailor homicide: Union Home Ministry dispatches group of anti-terror company NIA to Udaipur 

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Union Home Ministry on Tuesday evening dispatched a group of investigators of the anti-terror probe company NIA to Rajasthan’s Udaipur within the wake of killing of a tailor there, officers mentioned.

Two males slit the throat of the tailor and posted a video on social media the place they claimed that they’re avenging an insult to Islam.

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This triggered communal rigidity within the Rajasthan metropolis with a curfew being imposed.

A group of the National Investigation Agency has been despatched to Udaipur, officers mentioned right here.

The case is prone to be handed over to the NIA for probe after registration of a case beneath the stringent anti-terror regulation Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.

Prima-facie it appears to be like like a terror assault, an official mentioned on situation of anonymity.

The males who allegedly carried out the daylight homicide and posted movies on-line admitting to the crime have been taken into custody by police.

In a video clip, one of many purported assailants declared that that they had beheaded the person after which threatened Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying their knife will get him as properly.

Indirectly, the assailants referred to Nupur Sharma, the BJP chief suspended from the get together over a comment on Prophet Mohammad.