Mohammed Fazil murder: Victim’s father lodges complaint against VHP leader who bragged about killing
Mohammed Fazil was hacked to death by four masked men on July 28 last year inside a clothing store at Surathkal in Karnataka’s Mangalore. Eight people were arrested for the crime.
VHP leader Sharan Pumpwell recently bragged that Mohammed Fazil was killed to 'avenge' the murder of BJP leader Praveen Nettaru. (Twitter) Two days after Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Sharan Pumpwell bragged that Mohammed Fazil was killed to ‘avenge’ the murder of BJP leader Praveen Nettaru, the slain youth’s father Umar Farooq has approached Mangaluru police with a complaint to investigate former’s role in the crime.
Farooq lodged a complaint in this regard with Mangaluru City Police Commissioner N Shashi Kumar on Monday.
Mohammed Fazil, 23, an MBA graduate, was hacked to death by four masked men on July 28 last year inside a clothing store at Surathkal in Karnataka’s Mangalore. Eight people were arrested for the crime.
On Saturday, at the ‘Shaurya Yathre’ event of Bajrang Dal in Tumakuru, Pumpwell claimed that Fazil was murdered to avenge Nettaru’s death. “In order to respond to the murder of BJP leader Praveen Nettaru, youths in Surathkal killed him; not at an isolated place but in an open market. This is the power of Hindu youths,” he had said.
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