CM Gehlot's answer to Hindu man's beheading, "don't watch the video"
Two people have been arrested based on the video evidence.
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Udaipur, Jun 29: "It is too grisly to watch, my advice is please don't look at the video," said a top Rajasthan cop after the murder of a tailor at his shop in Udaipur was filmed by his killers. Hawa Singh Ghumaria, the ADG Law and Order for Rajasthan, also asked the media not to broadcast the video because of its highly inflammatory content. CM Ashok Gehlot also appealed the same.
Two people have been arrested based on the video evidence.
While the beheading was recorded and broadcasted by the killers, the police and CM’s argument is that the people should not watch it because "It is too grisly to watch.” When the law and order in a state are at such a level that two men enter a shop and behead someone and brazenly record the video and upload it without any fear of the police, there was another video of these men threatening to do so, police lose the moral ground to give such sage advice to the people as they have failed to do their job. Kanhaiya Lal was at his shop in a particularly crowded market in Udaipur when two Muslim men entered it in the afternoon. Minutes later, they attacked him with a knife. The killing was filmed; and the killers then gloated, also on camera, about how the tailor was murdered. The videos were posted on social media.
The man had expressed support on social media for the former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, whose comments triggered an international controversy and large protests within India over her remarks on Prophet Mohammed. Udaipur is seething with tension now; 600 additional cops have been rushed to the popular tourist destination and the Internet has been suspended. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has appealed for calm.