Bengaluru: A little over 24 hours after announcing its first list of 189 candidates, BJP on Wednesday released a second list of 23 candidates. It denied tickets to seven sitting MLAs, including Channagiri MLA Madal Virupakshappa, who is in jail on charges of corruption. There are two women in the second list.
On 30 March, the police said that Jat and his accomplices allegedly slaughtered a cow in a field near Agra’s Mehtab Bagh and falsely accused four Muslim men Rizwan, Nakeem, Chhotu, and Shanu of the act.
The police are now looking for the remaining three accused, all Muslims. According to investigators, the five accused Muslim men had enmity with the four named in the false cow slaughter FIR.