NEW DELHI: Rajasthan high court on Thursday provided relief to Mohammad Javed on a bail bond of Rs 2 lakh and surety of Rs 1 lakh each in case of beheading a tailor for a social media post supporting former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma.
Javed was accused of doing recce in this case.
Mohammd Riyaz Attari and Ghouse Mohammed, posing as customers, entered Kanhaiya Lal's shop and brutally murdered him with a cleaver in broad daylight in .
In a video the duo released hours before their arrest, they claimed that they killed Kanhaiya for one of his social media posts supporting suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, who was accused of making remarks denigrating Prophet Mohammed."
The case was initially registered at Dhanmandi police station in Udaipur, and later, on June 29, 2022, the NIA filed a separate case. The NIA classified the murder as a "terror act" motivated by "incriminating" audio, video, and other messages circulated both within and outside the country.
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