Waghmare Shot, Killed Gauri Lankesh, Confirms Forensic LabJust In

September 05, 2018 11:34
Waghmare Shot, Killed Gauri Lankesh, Confirms Forensic Lab

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The Special Investigation Team investigating the Indian Journalist Gauri Lankesh murder lawsuit got a major breakthrough with a Gujarat based forensic lab confirming that Parashuram Waghmare shot and killed her in Bengaluru on September 5 earlier this year.

SIT sources said the entire sequence of events was reconstructed and a video of it along with CCTV (Closed Circuit TV) footage on the day of incident sent to the Directorate of Forensic Science, which confirmed that the man in both the visuals was the same.

"The FSL lab confirmed that the person who appeared in both visuals was the same. It establishes our line of investigation," said the SIT officer, requesting anonymity.

Gauri Lankesh, known for her progressive and fearless writing, was shot dead at close range by unknown assailants at her home on September 5, 2017.

In the meantime, the SIT has intensified its hunt for some more people who were part of the Lankesh murder case either directly or indirectly. It has up to now arrested 12 people.

"They have absconded after the Maharashtra ATS launched a manhunt for them. They are all from Maharashtra and Goa," the officer said.

The team has likewise identified at least 50 people in Karnataka who were part of this unnamed gang. They have as well identified an equal number of activists in Maharashtra too.

"The group has a vast size and network and is active across India. We have identified many of them and have shared the names of people involved in such crimes with our higher-ups. It is up to them take action," he said.

This fringe group, which has killed four prominent persons, Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, M M Kalburgi, and Lankesh, showed signs of its being after the blast in Margao about nine years ago.

The hit list of 26 people was prepared and had killed four of them and recceed the activities of else prominent people, including Jnanpith awardee and playwright Girish Karnad, K S Bhagawan and a few religious seers and politicians, the officer said.

"In Karnataka, it was Manohar and Sujith who were recruiting people, while Amol Kale was the kingpin of the gang and mastermind of Lankesh murder case," a SIT officer said.

Police during raids at the hideouts and houses of these gang members, discovered books authored by Jayant Balaji

The hypnotherapist Athavale, who founded right wing Sanatan Sanstha in 1999.

The Sanstha has been accused of having links with people arrested in link with the killings of rationalists Govind Pansare, Narendra Dabholkar, M M Kalburgi and as well Gauri Lankesh, likewise seizure of explosives by the Maharashtra anti-terror squad.

However, the outfit claimed that those arrested were not its members.

By Sowmya Sangam

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