A man in India, whose name was given as Kanhaiya Lal, was on Thursday been murdered over alleged blasphemy against Prophet Mohammad.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Lal who is a tailor was hacked to death right inside his shop in Udaipur, a city in the western Indian State of Rajasthan.
The perpetrators who went on to post the video online, claimed that they killed him in retaliation of his ‘support’ for a remark about Prophet Muhammad (SAW).
Lal, who ran Supreme Tailors in Udaipur’s Hathipole, was seen in the video posted online taking measurements of one of them.
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Within a few minutes, the man cut the tailor very deeply on his neck with a cleaver.
‘Kya hua? Batao toh sahi (What happened? Tell me)’, he asks the victim.
In another video which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York, the muggers identified themselves as Mohammad Riyaz and Ghouse Mohammad.
They boasted about the murder and threatened to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Riyaz and Mohammad, both residents of Udaipur, were arrested from Bhim in Rajsamand district.
The killing sparked outrage which the authorities are trying to get under control.
Curfew orders have been imposed in Rajasthan for a month, and internet services suspended.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that in Nigeria, a member of a vigilante group in the capital, Abuja, was killed and set on fire for alleged blasphemy.
On May 12, Deborah Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, was stoned to death and burned for ‘blasphemy’.
A few days later, a mob murdered a member of a vigilante group in Lugbe area of Abuja on Saturday for allegedly making a blasphemous statement.
The residents were said to have begged the vigilantes to free them in the name of Allah but one of the vigilantes kicked and made comments alleged to be blasphemous.
