The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday announced a reward of Rs 2.5 lakh for information on either of the two alleged killers of Hindu Samaj Party leader Kamlesh Tiwari, who was shot and stabbed in his Lucknow office on Friday afternoon. A police source on Monday said that CCTV footage collected from Shahjahanpur, 175km north of Lucknow, showed Hussain and Pathan walking on a road. “They got off an SUV near the railway station in Shahjahanpur and walked towards the bus stand. “He (the driver) has revealed that the two suspects hired the SUV in Lakhimpur Kheri, 90km east of Shahjahanpur, and asked to be driven to Nepal. On Saturday, the police arrested two clerics from Bijnore, Anwar-ul-Haq and Naseem Kazmi, who had in 2015 announced a reward for beheading Tiwari over his provocative remark.

Source: The Telegraph October 21, 2019 19:52 UTC