Tension In Udaipur Over Tailor's Brutal Murder. 2 Held, Curfew Imposed, NIA Team Dispatched | Key Points

Udaipur Murder: Two people have been arrested for the incident and curfew has been imposed in parts of Udaipur. Here are the latest developments on the incident.

Kanhaiya Lal, a tailor, works at his shop before he was attacked by an assailant with a sharp weapon

Source : PTI

Tension erupted in Rajasthan's Udaipur after two men slit the throat of a tailor inside his shop for supporting suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma on social media over her controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammed. A video of the incident where the accused have claimed responsibility for the brutal murder has gone viral on social media. Two people have been arrested for the incident and curfew has been imposed in parts of Udaipur. Mobile internet has also been suspended in the city as Chief MInister Ashok Gehlot appealed for peace.

Udaipur Tension Over Tailor's Murder: Here Are The Latest Updates

• The victim has been identified as Kanhaiyalal Teli (40), a tailor who ran a shop named Supreme Tailors in Udaipur's Dhanmandi.
• Two men entered his shop posing as customers. As the tailor was taking the measurements of one of them, he attacked him with a cleaver. The other man shot the murder with his mobile phone. Multiple stab wounds were also found on Kanhaiyalal's body, IANS reported.
• In a video clip posted online, one of the assailants said they had beheaded the man and also threatened Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• Kanhaiyalal had put up a social media post in favour of Nupur Sharma about 10 days back. Since then, people from a particular community were threatening to kill him. He had also filed a police complaint in this matter.
• As the video went viral, shopkeepers in local markets downed shutters and staged a protest. Shopkeepers prevented police from taking away the tailor's body and demanded arrest of the murderers and compensation of Rs 50 lakh and a government job for the victim's family.
• The accused, identified as Gaus Mohammed and Riyaz, residents of Surajpole, have been arrested. Police said the duo was trying to flee on a motorcycle and were wearing helmets to cover their faces, PTI reported.
  
• The Centre is treating the killing as a terror attack and dispatched a team of the anti-terror probe agency NIA. The case is likely to be handed over to the NIA for probe after registration of a case under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, PTI reported.
• Curfew has been imposed in seven police station areas of Udaipur -- Dhan Mandi, Ghanta Ghar, Hathi Pole, Amba Mata, Suraj Pole, Bhupalpura and Savina.
• Mobile internet has also been suspended in Udaipur. "A state-level alert has been issued and range IGs and SPs have been asked to increase patrolling and force mobility as a precautionary measure," ADG Law and Order Hawa Singh Ghumaria said.
• Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot appealed to people to maintain peace and asked them not to share the videos. "The guilty will not be spared. The entire police team is working on it with full alertness. I can imagine the anger which is there among people due to the murder. We are taking action accordingly," he later told reporters in Jodhpur.