BENGALURU: Hours after claiming that a 22-year-old Dalit youth had been brutally stabbed to death for not speaking in Urdu early Tuesday in Bengaluru, home minister Araga Jnanendra made a U-turn on Wednesday clarifying that the man had been murdered in a road-rage incident and his earlier statement was made based on 'preliminary inputs' gathered from 'sources'.
Before the minister's claim and retraction, police commissioner Kamal Pant on Tuesday night tweeted that Chandru was murdered over a road-rage incident. Police sources said Chandru is a Dalit Christian.