Tailor murder: Curfew continues in some areas of Udaipur

Curfew remained clamped in seven police station areas of the city on Wednesday and mobile Internet services suspended across all 33 districts of Rajasthan after a tailor was brutally murdered here by two men triggering stray cases of violenceHeavy deployment of police has been made in the city a day after the gruesome murder of Kanhaiya Lal the tailor by two men who had posted videos online that said they were avenging an insult to Islam Postmortem of the body is underway at the mortuary of the district government hospital police saidChief Minister Ashok Gehlot who was in Jodhpur returned to Jaipur and will hold a meeting with officers to review the situation official sources saidLeader of Opposition Gulab Chand Kataria demanded action against the Superintendent of Police UdaipurSuspension of one ASI is not enough Action against the SP should be taken It was his failure that the local police failed to ensure security of Kanhaiya Lal despite threat to his life Kataria told reporters hereProhibitory orders banning people from assembling were clamped across the state for a month and mobile internet services suspended after the incidentAt 8 pm on Tuesday curfew was declared till further orders in seven police station areas of Udaipur cityThe Union Home Ministry dispatched a team from the National Investigation Agency NIA to UdaipurThe Rajasthan Police also announced a special investigation team SIT soon after the arrest of the two men identified as Riaz Akhtari and Ghouse MohammadIn a video clip Akhtari declared that they had beheaded the man and went on to threaten Prime Minister Narendra ModiIndirectly the assailants also referred to Nupur Sharma the BJP leader suspended from the party over a remark on Prophet MohammadLal was recently arrested by the local police over a post on social media On June 15 while he was on bail he told police that he was receiving threat callsThe local SHO summoned both sides to the police station and settled the matter an official said After the murder police suspended an assistant sub inspector for negligence at that timeThe assailants entered Lals shop in Dhan Mandi posing as customers As the tailor took measurements Akhtari attacked him with a cleaver nearly severing his neck The other man shot the brutal murder with his mobile phoneThe men fled from the scene and later uploaded this clip on social media In another video the alleged assailant said they beheaded the tailor and threatened the prime minister for lighting this fireYet another provocative video was recorded on June 17 in which Akhtari said he will post it the day he carries out the murder He asked other members of the community to continue with similar attacksPolice sources said Akhtari works at a local mosque and the other assailant runs a grocery shopAs the videos circulated on social media tension escalated Shopkeepers in local markets downed shutters and a mob pelted stones and set two motorcycles on fireFor several hours shopkeepers stopped police from taking away the body saying they will allow the removal of the corpse only after the murderers are arrested and compensation Rs 50 lakh and a government job given to the victims family Later they agreed to assurances given by the authoritiesOn Twitter Gehlot had appealed for calm and asked people not to share the videosThe 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 had told reporters in JodhpurGehlot said there is communal tension in the country and the prime minister should address the people He said both Hindus and Muslims are worriedIt is more impactful if the prime minister speaks I believe that the prime minister should address the country on this occasion and should make an appeal that we will not tolerate violence at any cost What is the problem in saying so he saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever