India's anti-terror agency to probe killing of Hindu leader in Punjab

Source: Xinhua| 2017-10-20 20:11:03|Editor: Zhou Xin
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NEW DELHI, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- The local government in northern Indian state of Punjab Friday asked the country's anti-terror agency National Investigation Agency (NIA) to probe the killing of a leader of rightwing Hindu nationalist party Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

"Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has handed over the probe into the killing of an RSS worker in Ludhiana to the NIA," a local government official said.

On Tuesday, 58-year-old Ravinder Gosai was gunned down by unidentified assailants near his house in Ludhiana city.

The decision to transfer the case to NIA for probe was done at the request of RSS.

"On request of RSS, I've ordered transfer of Gosain murder case to NIA for better coordination between central agencies and Punjab police," Singh said.

RSS is considered as ideological fountainhead of BJP.

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