Overview

• Police have arrested eight suspects to date and secured their remand in local courts.
• The FIR invokes BNS sections for murder, kidnapping, rioting, unlawful assembly and voluntarily causing hurt.
• Searches are under way for other participants as authorities intensify security in Jamner.
• Investigators are probing motives from an inter-community relationship to old enmity and collecting forensic evidence.
• The victim’s family and local leaders allege gau rakshak involvement and are calling for a special investigation team.