The government on Saturday decided to hand over the probe into the killing of a chemist in Maharashtra's Amravati city to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), as the case was suspected to be a terror incident after it appeared that the victim was hacked to death for social media posts in support of Nupur Sharma who was suspended from the BJP following her remarks on Prophet Mohammad.

The chemist, Umesh Prahladrao Kolhe, was killed on June 21.