Udaipur beheading incident: NIA suspects role of 'terror gang, not terror outfit'
New Delhi [India], June 30: Amid the horrific Udaipur beheading incident, in which a tailor who was hacked to death inside his shop by two men over social media posts supporting Nupur Sharma, and a day after which NIA took the case, National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday said it suspects the role of a "terror gang and not a terror outfit".
The anti-terror agency made it clear that there is a role of a bigger gang behind the brutal killing and the murder was not done by only two persons but by a group of gangs.
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A senior NIA officer said, "There will be many group members of the accused. It is not just two. There will be a bigger group. The preliminary inquiry suggested that there may not be any terrorist group involved in the murder but a terror gang. Some media reports about the links of the two accused with some terrorist outfits are based on speculation."
As per the sources, the accused Riyaz Akhtari and Ghouse Mohammad will be presented in a special NIA court in Jaipur on Friday and both residents of Udaipur, will be questioned at NIA's Jaipur office and not be brought to Delhi.
The senior officer further stated that NIA's six to 10-member team under the supervision of an Inspector General and a Deputy Inspector General rank officer is probing the matter, and a series of raids will be conducted as per inputs.
NIA on Wednesday took over the investigation of the brutal murder of a tailor Kanhaiya Lal, the tailor, in Rajasthan's Udaipur who was hacked to death inside his shop by two men in broad daylight.
The anti-terror agency has filed a First Information Report (FIR) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act as well as various sections of the Indian Penal Code.
The incident took place in Udaipur's Maldas area. Soon after committing the crime, the two accused posted a video on social media boasting about the "beheading" and threatened Prime Minister Narendra Modi's life as well, police said. The two accused were arrested within hours of the incident.
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Meanwhile, internet services were also suspended in Udaipur and curfew has been imposed followed by unrest in many states, especially in Rajasthan.
-PTC News
