The seven are Muddasar Ahmad (22), Shahrukh Pathan (25), Abdul Taufiq (24) Shoaib Khan (22), Atib Rashid (22) and Yusuf Khan (32) and alleged mastermind Shaikh Irfan Shaikh Rahim.
People had received threatening calls and were asked to post video messages apologizing for supporting Sharma's controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammed.
Kanhaiya Lal was murdered at his shop in Rajasthan's Udaipur city on June 28, while Kolhe was killed in Amravati on June 21.
Umesh Prahladrao Kolhe's killing is linked to certain posts that he had shared in WhatsApp groups, supporting Nupur Sharma's comments about Prophet Mohammad, police said.
The killing in Amravati has similarities to tailor Kanhaiya Lal's beheading in Rajasthan's Udaipur, as he was also killed for supporting Nupur Sharma.
The 54-year-old chemist was stabbed to death in Amravati city of Maharashtra on June 21, and police suspected that the brutal murder in Maharashtra was after he wrote a post in support of Nupur Sharma on Facebook. He used to run a chemist shop by the name of Amit Medical Store in Amravati.
"The work was completed in record time of 105 Hours and 33 Minutes. The Amravati to Akola section is the part of National Highway-53 and an important East-West corridor," Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said.
Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana were arrested on Saturday after they gave a call for the chanting of Hanuman Chalisa outside Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's private residence in Mumbai.
The Rana duo, who were arrested for inciting people and making provocative statements, had a plan to recite Hanuman Chalisa outside Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's residence 'Matoshree'.
Curfew was clamped in Achalpur city of Amravati after members of two communities pelted each other with stones over the removal of a religious flag.
Amravati clash: 16 people have been arrested so far for indulging in violence during a flag changing ritual.
The car was completely damaged due to the impact of the collision. Two wheels of the truck also came off after the accident, which took place on Nandgaonpeth-Devalgaon ring road, police said.
All buses gutted in the fire belonged to Kaveri Travels. The loss is estimated to be Rs 6 crore.
Reacting to his allegations, Maharashtra minister Yashomati Thakur said the BJP should not politicize the developments and a responsible leader like Fadnavis should not vitiate the atmosphere by indulging in "vote bank politics".
The Maharashtra government had imposed a curfew was imposed Amravati city on Saturday after a mob hurled stones on shops during a bandh allegedly organised by BJP in protest against rallies taken out by members of a minority community.
The Maharashtra government on Saturday clamped prohibitory orders in Amravati town which was rocked by violence during a Bharatiya Janata Party-sponsored 'bandh' (shutdown), officials said.
A senior police official said the violence took place in Vazirabad area and Deglur Naka of Nanded city and they have estimated losses worth nearly Rs 1 lakh.
On Saturday morning, hundreds of people, many of them holding saffron flags in their hands and raising slogans, came out on streets in Rajkamal Chowk area of the eastern Maharashtra city, located around 670 km from Mumbai.
Against the backdrop of back-to-back incidents of stone-pelting on Friday and Saturday, officiating police commissioner Sandip Patil issued orders imposing a curfew in the city limits of Amravati under sections 144(1), (2), (3) of the CrPc to avoid any untoward incidents.
Hundreds of people, many of them holding saffron flags in their hands and raising slogans, came out on streets in the Rajkamal Chowk area of Amravati.
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