New Delhi: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday chargesheeted four more accused, three of whom are absconding, for their alleged involvement in the brutal murder of Karnataka BJP leader Praveen Nettaru in 2022 by cadres of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI).
In its second supplementary charge sheet, NIA has charged Abdul Nasir, Naushad, Abdul Rahaman and Ateeq Ahmed, for providing shelter to the three main assailants behind the murder, in Mysore and Chamarajanagar districts of Karnataka and Erode district in Tamil Nadu. Nasir and Rahaman were also involved in harbouring another accused Thufail M H in Bengaluru, NIA said on Tuesday.
The total number of chargesheeted accused in the case has now risen to 27, including six who are absconding.
Nettaru, a BJP Yuva Morcha district executive committee member, was hacked to death by two motorcycle-borne assailants in Bellare village of Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka on July 26, 2022.
Bharti Jain is senior editor with The Times of India, New Delhi. ...
Read MoreBharti Jain is senior editor with The Times of India, New Delhi. She has been writing on security matters since 1996. Having covered the Union home ministry, security agencies, Election Commission and the ‘prime’ political beat, the Congress, for The Economic Times all these years, she moved to TOI in August 2012. Her repertoire of news stories delves into the whole gamut of issues related to terrorism and internal strife, besides probing strategic affairs in India’s neighbourhood.
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