Gauri Lankesh murdered for being anti-Hindu, confesses arrested man
Bengaluru, Jun 8 (IBNS): A man who has been arrested for the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh confessed that the latter was gunned down for being anti-Hindu, media reports said.
KT Naveen Kumar, the arrested man, 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.
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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