NIA chief holds meeting with Amit Shah on killings

New Delhi: Days after the Ministry of Home Affairs directed National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take over the probe of the brutal killings in Rajasthan's Udaipur and Maharashtra's Amravati, NIA chief Dinkar Gupta on Monday held a meeting with Union home minister Amit Shah at his office in the national capital.

On June 28, a tailor Kanhaiyalal Kumar was beheaded by two men inside his shop in Udaipur in broad daylight, while a chemist shop owner Umesh Kolhe was killed by several men in Amravati on June 21. In Amravati killing case, a district court in Amravati sent the key accused and Irfan Sheikh, the mastermind in the murder case, to police custody till July 7. The accused was arrested by Amravati police in Nagpur on Sunday.