Have been treating Udaipur killing as terror act from the beginning: DGP | Newest Information India

The Rajasthan Police have been treating the brutal killing of a Hindu tailor by two Muslim males as an act of terror “from the very starting” and have additionally booked the accused beneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA), state directorate common of police (DGP) M L Lather mentioned on Wednesday.

Preliminary investigation by the state police has revealed that one of many accused, Gaus Mohammed, a resident of Udaipur who was apprehended by Rajasthan Police on Tuesday night, had made a visit to Pakistan in 2014, and was intently linked to an organisation named Dawaat-e-Islami, the DGP mentioned.

“In the course of the course of the investigation, it has emerged that Gaus Mohammed was intently linked with an organisation known as Dawat-e-Islami. Protecting this in thoughts and following directions from chief minister Ashok Gehlot, we’ve got been treating the case as an act of terror proper from the start,” Lather mentioned.

Protecting in thoughts these features and the character of the assault, the state police notified the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) and appealed for assist, Lather added.

“Now we have additionally filed a case beneath UAPA,” he mentioned.

NIA has already registered a case beneath UAPA in reference to the grotesque homicide of the Hindu tailor that has shocked the nation.