Overview

• BJP and JD-S leaders met Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot on August 13 to submit a memorandum urging NIA jurisdiction over the murder case.
• The parties accused state police of dereliction for failing to act on public displays of weapons and social media warnings before the August 3 attack.
• They claimed the killing bore the “stamp of the PFI and SDPI” and alleged involvement of sleeper cells with foreign funding.
• Valmiki community leader Gavisiddappa Nayak was brutally hacked to death outside the Syed Nadeemullah Qadri Mosque in Koppal town.
• Police have arrested several suspects and intensified the manhunt for prime accused Sadiq Kolkar as the probe continues.