India, June 26 -- Ujjwal Nikam, known for being a government lawyer in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case of 2008 and other high-profile cases, has been appointed as Special Public Prosecutor in the Ketan Agarwal murder case in Maharashtra, wherein the 22-year-old man was killed allegedly by his fiancee Siya Goyal and her lover Chetan Chaudhary in Pune.

Senior Advocate and Rajya Sabha MP Nikam on Friday said he accepted the responsibility following a request from Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and the victim's family. Nikam said he received a call from the CM in the afternoon, and he informed him that the Agarwal family had met him and sought his appointment in the case.

"The entire nation has been shaken by this murder," he told new...