Bengaluru, Oct 3: Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy has once again reiterated that the special investigation team (SIT) probing the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh had “definite clues” and “has identified those who carried out the murder.”
“The SIT now has definite clues and it knows who are the people behind the murder. However, the process of gathering evidence is ongoing, and this will be crucial for the charge sheet,” he said.
However, Mr. Reddy refused to disclose details, saying this would hamper investigations which were at a crucial stage.
Sources in the SIT said details would be made public once the evidence was collated.
October 5 will mark one month since the killing of Lankesh, Editor of Gauri Lankesh Patrike, outside her home in Bengaluru. She was gunned down by an assailant wearing a helmet, on the evening of September 5. The assailant, whose identity has remained a mystery, fired four rounds at her from a country-made pistol and is suspected to have had an accomplice. The two are suspected to have escaped from the scene of crime on a motorcycle.
In the past few weeks, the SIT has interviewed and questioned several members of Hindu radical outfits, people connected to Lankesh among others.
Sources in the SIT said a team of officials had stationed itself in Vijayapura on the Karnataka-Maharashtra border to gather information on the flourishing illegal sale of firearms in the city. The 7.65-mm cartridges, fired from country-made pistols, led the team to Vijayapura.
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