Sixth suspect arrested in Gauri Lankesh murder case
Bengaluru, June 12 (IBNS): A special investigation team, probing journalist Gauri Lankesh's murder, has arrested the sixth person in connection with the case.
Parashuram Wagmare, 26, who was arrested on Monday, was produced before the 3rd Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s court in the city on Tuesday.
Wagmare has been remanded to 14 days of police custody.
The SIT also arrested his alleged accomplice Sunil Agasara.
KT Naveen Kumar, whose arrest gave a major breakthrough to SIT, said he had supplied bullets to a right-wing activist who told him that they were after Lankesh as she was anti-Hindu.
Naveen, who is allegedly an arms dealer, was also in the plot to kill another rationalist Professor KS Bhagawan.
According to police, Naveen is a member of pro-Hindu outfit. He had delivered bullets to a man named as Praveen.
Based on his confessions and other evidence gathered by the SIT, four others were earlier arrested.
Lankesh, a popular journalist who took stands against Right-wing ideology, was shot three times by some unknown assailants outside her residence last year.
Lankesh, 55, was the editor of a Kannada weekly Lankesh Patrikewas.
Gauri Lankesh's murder had sparked country-wide protests.
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