Bengaluru, June 9 -- Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Monday said that the Central Home Ministry has sent a letter to the state government asking it to hand over the Suhas Shetty murder case to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), and a decision on it will be taken soon.

Speaking to the mediapersons, Parameshwara said, "The Central Home Ministry has written a letter to the State government to hand over the case of the murder of Suhas Shetty to the NIA. I believe yesterday the letter came, I learn that from the Director General of police (DGP), and today, we are going to decide on it..."

Shetty, a prominent right-wing youth leader associated with the Bajrang Dal in Karnataka's coastal belt, was brutally murdered last month i...