Udaipur, June 29: Tailor Kanhaiya Lal, who was beheaded in Udaipur in Rajasthan by two men for allegedly posting content in support of suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma, has created a public outcry. Reacting to the horrific and brutal killing of her husband, his wife Yashoda demanded that the culprits should be hanged to death.
"We demand those people who murdered him (Kanhaiya Lal) should be hanged to death, we demand their death sentence & need justice," said Wife of Kanhaiya Lal who was beheaded, yesterday.
Kanhaiya Lal, whose gruesome murder shocked the nation, was cremated on Wednesday in Rajasthan's Udaipur in the presence of a large number of people who raised slogans demanding capital punishment for the accused.
His last rites were performed amidst heavy police security. She said, "Kanhaiya Lal had returned to his shop after many days as he was receiving death threats."
"For the last 10-15 days he was getting life threats. They said that they will kill him. People used to come both at home and his shop to threaten him. He was threatened over the phone as well," she recalled how her husband was getting death threats. Udaipur Beheading: NIA Registers Case Under UAPA, Says Accused Wanted to 'Strike Terror Among Masses'.
Yesterday, just a few hours after he reopened his shop, two men arrived posing as customers. He started measuring one of them and suddenly, he was attacked with a giant cleaver while the r man recorded the gruesome incident.
Kanhaiya has also filed a complaint with the police about threats.
A relative of the deceased demanded capital punishment for the murderers saying, "The accused should get punished, otherwide these people will get encouraged to commit more such crimes. The accused should be given such a punishment that no one dares to commit such an incident again ."
"We want that either their (murderers) encounter should happen or they should be hanged to death. It's needed to instil fear in them," said Kanhaiya Lal's son. The two men seen in the video hacking the tailor, were arrested last night.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday took over the investigation of the brutal murder of a tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Rajasthan's Udaipur who was hacked to death inside his shop by two men in broad daylight a day ago, officials said.
The anti-terror agency has also filed a First Information Report (FIR) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act as well as various sections of the Indian Penal Code, a senior NIA official told ANI requesting anonymity. The move comes soon after the Ministry of Home Affairs directed the NIA to take over the investiid="search_input_fld" class="form-control mr-sm-2" type="search" name="q" placeholder="Search" aria-label="Search" required>