The killers tried to behead him but couldn't, the police said.
The killers in the murder of a tailor in Rajasthan's Udaipur over a social media post on Prophet Muhammed were assaulted by a huge crowd, including lawyers, while they were being taken into police custody at a Jaipur court.
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- The attackers and their two accomplices were presented at an National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Jaipur today amid heavy police arrangements. All four of them have been sent to a 10-day NIA custody.
- Meanwhile, curfew in the city will be relaxed for ten hours with the situation gradually returning to normal. Internet services will also be restored in five districts.
- Riaz Akhtari and Gos Mohammad were arrested on Tuesday, hours after they killed the tailor, Kanhaiya Lal, with a cleaver at his shop for supporting suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma.
- They filmed the act and later posted a video bragging about it, saying they avenged "an insult to Islam", and threatened Prime Minister Narendra Modi too.
- The killers tried to behead him but couldn't, the police said. The neck was slit but the head was not severed.
- Two others, Mohsin and Asif, were arrested on Thursday night. Investigators today said they were "on standby" to kill Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal had the two who killed him failed.
- The tailor had complained to the police about threats from his neighbours over a social media post. The "matter was resolved", the police said after they mediated talks between Kanhaiya Lal and those he had named in his complaint.
- Kanhaiya Lal's wife Jashoda told NDTV he had avoided going to his shop for a week. On Tuesday, he had gone for the first time in days.
- Earlier, NIA sources said the agency is looking into possible involvement of "local self-radicalised gangs" having international links. There may be a role of more people besides the two arrested men, it had said.
- The central agency took over the case on directions of the Ministry of Home Affairs. The case has political ramifications, too, as the BJP -- ruling at the Centre -- has accused the Congress and its government in Rajasthan of being soft against radicalisation.
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