Home Articles Udaipur killing: Karnataka CM wants murderers to be hanged
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Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said the two persons who beheaded 40-year-old tailor Kanhaiya Lal inside his shop in Udaipur city of Rajasthan deserve to be hanged to death.
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Kanhaiya Lal was killed allegedly for posting content in support of suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma.
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Mr. Bommai termed the murder an ‘inhuman act’. He wants the Rajasthan Government to take immediate measures to identify terrorist organisations and the persons behind the murder.
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“It’s a terrorist act,” Mr. Bommai told reporters in Bengaluru on June 30. He claimed that the murder was the outcome of a big international terrorist conspiracy. “A probe should be conducted to identify the global terrorist organisation,” he added.
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been given charge of the probe into the beheading of Kanhaiya Lal.
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Right-wing groups have staged protests in several parts of Karnataka opposing the killing.