'Hand Over Case To CBI If...': BJP's Nadda On Hubballi Murder After Meeting Congress Councillor Hiremath

BJP National President JP Nadda on Sunday said that the father of the Hubballi murder victim is demanding a CBI probe into the case which has gripped the Congress-ruled Karnataka.

Nadda made these remarks during a visit to the residence of the Congress Councillor of Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation, whose daughter was stabbed to death earlier this month. Neha Hiremath, daughter of Congress Councillor Niranjan Hiremath was killed by her former classmate Fayaz at her college, following which police nabbed the perpetrator within an hour of the crime. Talking to reporters here, the BJP chief alleged that the Karnataka government is trying to influence the probe to dilute the case.

“This is a shocking incident and we condemn it…CM Siddaramaiah’s and Home Minister G Parameshwara’s statements on this incident are objectionable. Their statements dilute the investigation. The people of Karnataka will not spare the current government for its appeasement politics. The state government should hand over the case to the CBI if the State Police is incapable of a fair probe. Hiremath has also demanded a CBI inquiry into the incident as he has less faith in the State police,” Nadda was quoted as saying by ANI.

State officials on Sunday said Hubballi Dharwad City Police Commissioner Renuka Sukumar appreciated the police team that successfully nabbed the accused in the recent murder case of a 23-year-old student college student inside the campus. Sukumar also gave away Rs 25,000 as cash prize apart from appreciation letters to each member of the team, they said. According to the police, senior officers had formed a special team under the leadership of ACP Shivaprakash Nayka and Police Inspector D K Patil to trace the accused in the case.

The officers and staff of the team swiftly coordinated with each other and managed to chase Fayaz who had managed to escape after the brutally killing Neha Hiremath at BVB college campus on April 18. The team, however, managed to arrest the accused within an hour of the crime and subsequently sent him to judicial custody. The murder of the daughter of the Congress Councillor of Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation Niranjan Hiremath on the campus of her college here sparked widespread condemnation and protests.

The issue has snowballed into a political slugfest between the ruling Congress and opposition BJP in Karnataka. While the ruling party has tried to project it as an “incident with a personal angle”, the saffron party branded it “love jihad” and said it points to the “deterioration of law and order” in the state.

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