Five detained in Kamlesh Tiwari murder case; sweets brought by accused proved key link, helped traced three back to Surat, say cops
FirstpostGujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad has nabbed five persons, three of them from Surat, in connection with the killing of a former Hindu Mahasabha leader Kamlesh Tiwari in Lucknow, officials said on Saturday Surat: Five people have been detained including three in Gujarat’s Surat in connection with the murder of Kamlesh Tiwari, the president of a little-known Hindu outfit, with police saying on Saturday that the suspects were “radicalised” and appeared to have targeted him for his inflammatory remarks made in 2015. “So far, there is no terror angle associated with this incident,” Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police DGP O P Singh said at a press conference here, a day after the Hindu Samaj Party chief was killed at his home in Lucknow’s Khurshed Bagh. “Going by investigation and joint interrogation, it was clear that these three persons were part of the conspiracy to murder Kamlesh Tiwari,” Singh said, adding that their interrogation revealed that they had no links with any terror organisation. “My son was killed by a local BJP leader… due to a temple land dispute in village,” Tiwari’s mother told reporters.