JAIPUR, India: Hundreds of police were deployed and mobile internet was cut in an Indian city on Wednesday following the murder of a Hindu tailor by two Muslim men.

The western city of Udaipur was placed under partial curfew to guard against potential sectarian violence after a video showing the killing of that tailor, Kanhaiya Lal, went viral.

Mobile internet access was also cut in other parts of Rajasthan state, and local authorities issued a month-long order banning four or more people from gathering anywhere in the state.

The victim’s funeral was to be held later in the day.

Lal reportedly shared a social media post supporting recent comments about the Prophet Muhammad by a spokesman for India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The remarks by that spokesman, Nupur Sharma, about Islam’s founder during a television debate in late May sparked protests that turned violent in some parts of India and demonstrations across the Islamic world.

In the video showing the murder, the two men can be seen brandishing large knives and threatening to kill Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sharma.

“Both the accused in the killing have been arrested and we will ensure strict punishment and speedy justice,” Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot said.

He appealed to people to not share the video, as it would “serve the attackers’ motive of creating discord in society.”

BJP sacked Sharma after her comments, which saw the governments of nearly 20 countries summoning their Indian envoys for an explanation.

The row followed anger across the Muslim world in 2020 after French President Emmanuel Macron defended the right of a satirical magazine to publish caricatures of the Prophet.

Images of the Prophet are strictly forbidden in Sunni Islam. French teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded in October 2020 by a Chechen refugee after showing the cartoons to his class in a lesson on free speech.