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Gauri Lankesh Murder Case: No major breakthrough in probe yet

| @indiablooms | Sep 08, 2017, at 05:45 pm
Bengaluru, Sep 8 (IBNS): No major breakthrough has yet been made even as a 21-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been probing the murder case of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, who was gunned down by some unknown assailants outside her residence on Tuesday evening, media reports said.

The SIT has been formed by the Karnataka government.

Gauri Lankesh's murder has sparked country-wide protests.

Her family also said they will move to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) if they fail to get any justice in the murder case, media reports said.

However, despite examining CCTV footage the police could not identify the gunmen who killed the journalist-activist.

Lankesh, a popular journalist who took stand against Right-wing ideology, was shot three times by some unknown assailants outside her residence.

Her murder bears a resemblance with earlier murders of rationalists Narendra Dabholkar and MM Kalburgi.

Her brother Indrajit Lankesh told reporters that one lady who stays opposite his sister's house heard the noise of the shooting first which she initially mistook for the sound of  fire crackers and later identified Gauri's body lying down.

Lankesh, who worked as an editor in a Kannada weekly Lankesh Patrikewas, died at an age of 55.

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