Udaipur Murder: CM Ashok Gehlot Demands Clarification From BJP On Alleged Links With Accused

CM Ashok Gehlot said there were reports of BJP helping the accused by resolving the police complaint lodged against him by his landlord for not paying rent.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Monday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for its alleged links with one of the accused in the recent murder of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur. The Chief Minister while addressing a press conference in Jaipur said that one of the accused was earlier helped by the BJP in a police case and asked the party to respond to the allegations of its links, reported news agency PTI.

Speaking on the matter further, CM  Ashok Gehlot said there were reports of BJP helping the accused by resolving the police complaint lodged aginst him by his landlord for not paying rent. The police was asked to drop the matter by the BJP as he was their worker, said Gehlot.

The landlord was also threatened by some people after he lodged the complaint against the accused, said the Chief Minister, as reported by PTI.

“Before the police could take action, BJP leaders called up the police station and said that he was their worker and asked them to not trouble him"

“The person who committed such a huge and heinous crime had relations with whom, it has been exposed,” Gehlot said without naming anyone.

While addressing a press conference in Jaipur, the CM demanded BJP comes out clean on the allegations levelled against the party and issue a clarification.

After the murder in Udaipur, some photographs of the main accused, Riaz Akhtari, emerged on social media with some BJP leaders, including leader of opposition Gulab Chand Kataria after which the Congress alleged that Akhtari was a BJP worker.

BJP has since denied the allegation.

Kanhaiya Lal, a tailor, was brutally hacked to death by two men in his shop on June 28 in Udaipur’s Dhan Mandi police station area over a controversial social media post.

The two main accused, Riaz Akhtari and Ghouse Mohammad, shot the act on mobile and later recorded a video claiming responsibility for the murder saying that the man was beheaded for insulting Islam.

They shared the videos on social media.

Both of them were caught hours later from Rajsamand’s Bhim area.

(With PTI inputs)