Days after meeting the bereaved family of Kamlesh Tiwari, UP CM Yogi Adityanath government has announced an ex gratia amount of Rs 15 lakhs to be granted to the family along with a new house in Mahmudabad Tehsil. In addition to this, the chief minister has also asked for fast track trial of the culprits charged with Tiwari’s murder while effective prosecution of those involved in hatching the conspiracy.

According to the press release, CM Yogi Adityanath has ordered immediate sanction of Rs 15 lakhs to the kinship of the Hindu Samaj chief Kamlesh Tiwari, who was brutally assassinated by Moinuddin and Ashfaq Pathan. The both assassins were arrested yesterday from Gujarat-Rajasthan border.

Earlier, Shamim Pathan, Faizan Pathan and Mohsin Sheikh were also arrested by the Gujarat ATS from Surat for being involved in the criminal conspiracy of assassinating Kamlesh Tiwari. Maharashtra ATS had picked up one Sayyed Asim Ali from Nagpur who was reportedly in contact with the assailants through mobile phone.

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UP CM Yogi Adityanath had on October 20, 2019 met with the anguished family of Kamlesh Tiwari and listened to their demands. Yogi Adityanath had then assured the grieving wife of former Hindu Mahasabha leader Kamlesh Tiwari that after the completion of investigation, the culprits will be hanged to death.

On 18th October 2019, Hindu leader Kamlesh Tiwari was brutally murdered for his 2015 comments where he had allegedly insulted Prophet Muhammad. Moinuddin and Ashfaq Pathan, disguised as Hindu rights activists had entered his residence carrying a gun and a knife concealed in packets of sweets and savagely assassinated the leader.