Uttar Pradesh police have made substantial headway in their hunt for Moinuddin and Ashfaq, the two men who hid their weapons in a Surat sweet box and hacked Kamlesh Tiwari to death.
Earlier today, UP DGP OP Singh had informed in a press conference that the three suspects and the two killers were all radicalised and they had planned Tiwari's murder.
Only two days before his murder, Kamlesh Tiwari had taken to Facebook to speak about how Uttar Pradesh Intelligence Bureau (UP IB) thought that he was a 'target for Jihadis'.
Uttar Pradesh ATS has confirmed that Maulana Anwar-ul-Haq and Mohammed Mufti Naeem Kazmi have been detained and are being interrogated for their role in the murder of Kamlesh Tiwari
Gujarat ATS has arrested 3 persons, named Shamim Pathan, Faizan Pathan and Mohsin Sheikh in connection to Kamlesh Tiwari's murder. Sheikh is a Maulvi by profession.
Wife of Kamlesh Tiwari has now filed an FIR against three people including Maulana Anwarul Haq, the head Imam of Jama Masjid in Bijnor, who had once offered Rs 51 lakh to behead Kamlesh Tiwari