Lucknow, December 25: Police have filed a charge sheet against 13 accused in connection with the murder of Hindu Samaj Party leader Kamlesh Tiwari on Tuesday. Out of the accused,  Ashraf and Moinuddin have been charged with murder.

Kamlesh Tiwari was shot dead at his residence in Khurshed Bagh area of Lucknow on October 18, 2019. After his death, Tiwari's wife had threatened to self immolate herself demanding justice for her husband while the family members refused to cremate Tiwari's body and demanded that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath should visit them in Sitapur. Yogi Adityanath on Kamlesh Tiwari Murder: 'Attempt to Spread Terror, SIT Will Crackdown on All Culprits'.

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The attackers wearing saffron clothes had walked into Tiwari's office in Khurshid Bagh on the pretext of handing over a box of sweets. When the assailants were inside the office, they opened the box, and fired bullets at Tiwari and fled. Tiwari was rushed to the hospital but could not be saved.

Tiwari had stoked controversy in 2015 when he issued blasphemous statements against the Prophet of Islam. He was jailed by the then Akhilesh Yadav government but was later released after the NSA was revoked against him.

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