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Two Maharashtra men who ordered Gauri killing on the SIT radar

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August 14, 2018

Bengaluru, Aug 14: The Special Investigation Team probing the murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh has closed in on two men who it believes masterminded the murder on September 5, 2017.

SIT sources said their personnel are lying in wait for the two masterminds at various locations in Maharashtra. The two men, along with a third person who later died of illness, allegedly issued orders to kill Gauri.

With 12 accused in custody and Nihal alias Dada, the 13th, elusive, SIT believes it’s about to wrap up the probe with these two arrests. “These three Maharashtra-based men issued orders to kill Gauri. The orders were given to Amol Kale, a Pune resident. Kale formed the core team which planned the murder with Sujit Kumar alias Praveen and Amit Degvekar as deputies. The pistol used for the murder was supplied to Kale by the three masterminds,” an SIT source said.

‘Amol Kale was commander for K’taka region’

The source said Amol Kale was appointed commander for Karnataka region and assigned the task of saving Hindutva by killing those who spoke ill of the religion. “Kale gave directions to others, saying no one must use the real names. Whenever they wanted to discuss Gauri Lankesh, they were to use the code word ‘Amma’,” a source said.

Inputs from Maharashtra police revealed that the dead mastermind, Kaka, mentored Kale. “Kaka brainwashed Kale, saying there’s nothing wrong in killing a person to save Hindusim. Kaka died of an illness a few months ago. We’re looking for the other two,” an SIT source said.

A court in Bengaluru on Monday handed over Belagavi resident Bharath Kurne, 37, to 11 days’ police custody. The SIT arrested Kurne on August 5 from Belagavi after suspecting him to be a co-conspirator. Kurne allegedly sheltered Kale and his associates, including Sindagi youth Parashuram Waghmore, who pulled the trigger on Gauri, in his hotel.

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Abdulla
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Tuesday, 14 Aug 2018

It is 100% terrorism if killed perover speaking against religion.

Sandesh shetty
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Tuesday, 14 Aug 2018

No involvement of top BJP, RSS leaders...! strange

Danish
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Tuesday, 14 Aug 2018

Why SIT, CID not probing proper on Pansare, Dabholkar, Kalburgi cases

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August 2,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 2: All the seven Airports in Karnataka have seen poor traffic even after the restoration of domestic flight services post covid-19 lockdown. Interestingly, Mangaluru International Airport, the second biggest in the state, has slipped to third position in number of number of passengers and flights. 

Of all the seven airports in State-- Bengaluru, Mangaluru, Hubballi, Belagavi, Mysuru, Kalaburagi and Vijaynagara (Hosapete)-- it was the Sambra (Belagavi) airport which saw the highest number of passengers and flights after Bengaluru. 

According to Airports Authority of India report released on their website recently, the Sambra airport outperformed the Managluru international airport in June. 

As many 10,224 passengers travelled to or from Belagavi airport in June, whereas Mangaluru airport saw a footfall of only 8,608 passengers including 3,726 international and 4,882 domestic passengers. Belagavi airport handled 391 flights whereas Mangaluru airport handled 190 flights.

Even the Bengaluru international airport saw a decline in the number of passengers and flights in June. Only 3.69 lakh domestic and 10,654 international passengers arrived or departed from Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru in June as against 27.59 lakh total passengers in June 2019. 

Between April-June 2020 the Bengaluru airport saw only 4.54 lakh total passengers (domestic and international) as against 84.11 lakh total passenger during the same period last year. The number of flights to and from Bengaluru also saw a huge dip in June with only 731 international (2,582 in June 2019) and 4290 domestic (16,216 in June 2019) flights.

Though the Mysuru domestic airport handled a higher number of flights compared to last June, the number of passengers either arriving or departing saw a decline. Last year June 4,775 passengers travelled in 96 flights, whereas in June 2020 the airport handled 3,158 passengers and 330 flights.

Hubballi airport saw the least number of passengers or flights among the seven airports in Karnataka in June. It saw only 55 passengers either arriving or departing from the city's airport in 14 flights in the month of June. In the same month last year, Hubballi airport, which was third busiest before the pandemic, had facilitated 45,973 passengers and handled 604 flights.

Since April 2020 to June, the Hubballi airport has handled only 18 flights (as against 1,958 during the same period last year) and 122 passengers (1,50,416 between April-June 2019).

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February 24,2020

Belgaum, Feb 24: Around 20 people entered a boys' hostel premises in Karnataka's Belgaum with rods and bats and destroyed properties allegedly over ragging of a girl by two hostel residents.

The incident took place on February 23 and was captured in the CCTV camera.

According to Belgaum Police, a gang of 20 people entered Dr BR Ambedkar post metric hostel premises in Belgaum with rods and bats. The group destroyed the properties of hostel, bikes, and scooters.

Police said this is an issue of ragging and during the incident, no students were injured.

Further, the investigation is underway.

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April 13,2020

Kundapur, Apr 13: The city police, burdened with the enforcement of COVID-19 lockdown decided to undertake door delivery of essential items to ensure people remained indoor, official sources said here on Monday.

According to them, the police would be delivering items to the houses in Kumdapur, Byndoor, Gongolli, Shankara Narayana, Kundapur Rural, Kota and Amavasebail.

The police will start spreading awareness with this regard for three days starting from today (April 13).

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