The ruling BJP seems to be on a collision course with the Bengaluru city police over the murder of Chandru in J.J. Nagar on Monday.
N. Ravikumar, General Secretary, BJP Karnataka, on Saturday alleged that the city police were “covering up” the case and the sequence of events that led to it. “The police may be trying to avoid more work. But it is a fact that Chandru was killed for not being able to speak Urdu, which the Home Minister had stated clearly,” he said, demanding a new FIR and a “fair probe” into the case.
However, Police Commissioner Kamal Pant stuck to the version he had tweeted after the murder. “As per the facts unearthed by our investigation so far, the murder happened during an altercation following an accident,” he said, refusing to further comment on the matter.
