- Thursday, February 27, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
A DAY after a Hindu tailor was brutally murdered by two self-radicalised Muslim men in a busy market area in broad daylight in Udaipur in the north-western Indian state of Maharashtra, Arif Mohammad Khan, the governor of southern state Kerala made an explosive observation.
The veteran leader said on Wednesday (29) that children were being taught in madrasas that beheading is the punishment for blasphemy.
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“We worry when symptoms come but refuse to notice the deeper disease. Children are being taught in madrassas that punishment for blasphemy is beheading. It’s being taught as the law of God…What’s being taught there should be examined,” the veteran leader, who had been a former central minister, said.
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Forty-eight-year-old Kanhaiya Lal was butchered by the two men purportedly over a social media post supporting former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nupur Sharma. The gruesome act was also recorded on camera and it went viral on social media. The accused were also seen issuing death threat to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.
The two men — Riyaz Akhtari and Ghous Mohammad – were later arrested in the Bheem area of Rajsamand district of Rajasthan on Tuesday night while they were trying to flee.
