Udaipur murder: Did Centre transfer Kanhaiya Lal case to NIA to hide this, asks Congress

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oi-Madhuri Adnal

New Delhi, Jul 02: The Congress on Saturday alleged that one of many most important accused within the brutal killing of a tailor in Udaipur is a “BJP member” and requested whether or not the Centre had moved rapidly to switch the case to the NIA resulting from this cause.

Addressing a press convention on the Congress headquarters right here, celebration’s media division head Pawan Khera stated a really sensational disclosure has been made by a media group in reference to the Udaipur incident which pointed to the BJP hyperlinks with Riyaz Attari.

Some studies have additionally referred to the accused as Riaz Akhtari. “The killer of Kanhaiya Lal, Riyaz Attari is a member of the BJP,” Khera stated in a tweet after the press convention.

Earlier within the day, responding to a tweet by a Congress chief referring to one of many accused’s alleged BJP hyperlinks, BJP’s IT cell chief Amit Malviya dismissed the declare as “faux information”.

“I’m not shocked that you’re peddling #FakeNews. The Udaipur murderers WERN’T members of the BJP. Their try to infiltrate was just like the LTTE murderer’s try to enter the Congress to kill Rajiv Gandhi,” he tweeted. “Congress ought to cease playing around with terror and nationwide safety,” Malviya stated.

Tailor Kanhaiya Lal was killed Tuesday afternoon by two cleaver-wielding males, who posted a grisly video of the crime on-line claiming duty for the homicide. The 2 accused, Riaz Akhtari and Ghouse Mohammad, have been despatched to judicial custody for 14 days.

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On the presser, Khera cited photos and posts linking Attari with BJP leaders — Irshad Chainwala and Mohammad Tahir. “It has additionally come to the fore in the identical disclosure that the principle accused Riyaz Attari typically participated within the programmes of Rajasthan BJP chief and former minister Gulabchand Kataria,” he alleged.

“Not solely this, photos of the principle accused Riyaz Attari attending the conferences of the BJP’s Rajasthan minority unit are additionally in entrance of the world,” Khera claimed.

Via the posts of BJP chief Irshad Chainwala on Fb on November 30, 2018, and Mohammad Tahir on February 3, 2019, October 27, 2019, August 10, 2021, November 28, 2019, and different posts, it’s clear that Attari was not solely “near BJP leaders”, however was additionally an lively member of the BJP, Khera alleged.

Questioning the “silence” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and House Minister Amit Shah, the Congress chief requested whether or not the Bharatiya Janata Get together and its leaders try to create an environment of non secular frenzy within the nation.

“Is the Bharatiya Janata Get together, via its spokespersons and leaders, making an attempt to take benefit by polarising the nation,” he requested.

Khera stated Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had welcomed the switch of this case to the NIA. Nonetheless, in mild of “new details”, the query that arises is whether or not the BJP-led authorities on the Centre moved rapidly to switch the case to the NIA resulting from these causes, he stated.