Well, CCTV footage of the Amravati murder of a chemist who supported Nupur Sharma

Amra­vati chemist Umesh Kol­he is sur­round­ed by his killers and assault­ed in CCTV footage that emerged weeks after the killing.

Grainy footage from June 21 shows Umesh Kol­he sud­den­ly col­laps­ing after being attacked.

Umesh Kol­he had his throat cut by two men on a motor­bike on his way back from his doc­tor’s office.

The first attempt to kill Amra­vati chemist Umesh Kol­he was made the pre­vi­ous day.

Mr. Kol­he was spared that day because he closed ear­ly — around 9:30 p.m.

The killers, who spot­ted the store ear­li­er, had expect­ed him to close his shop by 10 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., sources say.

Mr Kol­he was alleged­ly killed for his sup­port for for­mer BJP spokesman Nupur Shar­ma, whose com­ments on the Prophet Mohammed sparked out­rage in India and abroad.

The chemist was part of a What­sApp group called Black Free­dom, which has both Hin­du and Mus­lim members.

Mr Kol­he report­ed­ly made some reli­gious com­ments in sup­port of Nupur Shar­ma on What­sApp chat. The post was shared to oth­er What­sApp groups by his friend and client Yousuf Khan, a vet­eri­nar­i­an. One of these What­sApp groups was Kalim Ibrahim.

Irfan Khan, a mem­ber of that group, was furi­ous at the com­ments, police sources say. He planned the mur­der with five oth­er mem­bers, police say.

Yousuf Khan, who runs an NGO called Rehbar to help Mus­lim fam­i­lies, even vis­it­ed Mr Kol­he’s fam­i­ly dur­ing his funeral.

Irfan Khan and Yousuf Khan are among the sev­en men arrest­ed for killing Mr Kolhe.

The coun­try’s top coun­tert­er­ror­ism agency, the Nation­al Inves­ti­ga­tion Agency, has tak­en over the case, which took place a week before the Udaipur killing.

Nupur Shar­ma was sus­pend­ed by the BJP last month over com­ments about the Prophet Mohammed that sparked nation­wide protests and glob­al condemnation.