Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (EP)
Mangaluru, Oct 7: Special Investigation Team (SIT) police who are investigating the Gauri Lankesh murder case are suspecting the involvement of Kadaba, Puttur resident Jaya Prakash and four others in the case.
The five suspects are, Kolapur resident Pravin Limker, Kadaba resident Jaya Prakash alias Anna, Poona resident Sarang Akolkar, Sangli resident Rudra Patil and Satara resident Vinay Pawar.
All of them are said to be the suspects of bomb explosion at Malegaon, Maharashtra in 2009. SIT has suspected their involvement in Gauri Lankesh murder also.
Gauri Lankesh
CBI had investigated the involvement of Rudra Patil, Sarang Akolkar and Vinay Pawar in the murder of rationalist Narendra Dabolkar in Kolhapur, Maharashtra on August 20, 2013. Maharashtra SIT and Karnataka SIT teams had suspected the involvement of the three suspects in the murders of Govind Pansare on Feb 16, 2015 in Pune and Kannada scholar and researcher M M Kalaburgi on August 30, 2015 in Dharwad.
SIT teams visited Kadaba police station three times already and collected information on Jayaprakash alias Anna. SIT team had also come to the police station in the past after Malegaon explosions to investigate involvement of Jayaprakash.
Limker, an activist of Sanatana Dharma, Anna, Akolkar and Patil are said to be involved in Malegaon explosions where two people had died in a Deepavali programme when they were carrying IED. National Investigation Agency (NIA) had identified these suspects as the most wanted, released red corner notice and registered their names in Interpol to nab them.