Recently in the news for killing a Muslim labourer in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand, Shambhulal Regar has told the police that he spent a lot of time on the internet viewing hate speech videos against Islam, and that he wanted to kill Jama’at ud-Dawah leader Hafiz Saeed, the Indian Express reported.
“He told us – give me a chance even now, and I will kill Saeed”. Rajendra Singh Rao, circle officer from Rajsamand told the Indian Express.
During our interrogation, we found that Regar had been brainwashed against Islam to an extreme extent. He would regularly watch provocative videos by Hindu fundamentalists with inflammatory, anti-Islam propaganda. He also keenly followed anti-Hindu propaganda made by Islamic fundamentalists by streaming many such videos on his laptop.Rajendra Singh Rao, Circle Officer, Rajsamand, talking to the Indian Express.
Hafiz Saeed is the prime accused in masterminding the Mumbai terror attacks in November 2008.
He is unrepentant, and it seems that his mind is filled with prejudice and bias against Islam. He told us, ‘Kasab ko toh chicken biryani khila sakte ho aur mujhe sookhi roti khila rahe ho (You could feed chicken biryani to 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab, but I am being fed dry rotis)’… There’s no sign of mental illness and he speaks absolutely normally during interrogation.
Regar lynched Mohammed Afrazul, a labourer from Malda, and set his body ablaze while his nephew recorded the whole incident on camera. He later posted the video with hateful comments on social media, which led to his arrest the next day. He will stay in police custody till 20 December.
On 14 December, the Indian Express had reported that the police had frozen a bank account with Rs 3 lakh in deposits in his name from 516 people across the country.
(With inputs from Indian Express)
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