Gauri Lankesh murder: Accused worked in four teams?
Bengaluru, June 14: When the SIT officials interrogated the main accused in the journalist Gauri Lankesh murder case, Parashuram Waghmore, they found that the accused have formed four teams to carry out the crime.
All the four teams have their hands in eliminating Gauri Lankesh. Interestingly, all the four teams have distributed the works among themselves. The first team was entrusted the responsibility of keeping vigil on the daily activities of the victim and collection of the writings of Gauri, videos of her speech, statements against Sangh Parivar and Hindutva and other documents. Later, all such collected documents, statements or write ups were passed to the second team.
The work of the second team was to verify those documents, speech copies and videos and submitting them to the third team, which was observing the moment of Gauri round-the-clock. This team has collected information on where does she go, what does she do, whom she meet, what time she returns home, number of CCTV cameras on the places where she passes and other details. In fact, all the details were handed over to the fourth team in writing. The accused have disclosed all these information during the interrogation, sources said.
After collecting the final information, the accused killed Gauri Lankesh at her house at RR Nagar in the city on September 5, 2017. Among the arrested, two members are said to be the members of the fourth team and investigation is on, sources said.
Kale suspected
The SIT suspected the involvement of Amol Kale of Puna in this case. It is said that an organization has given the contract to him to kill someone and he has prepared a plan to execute the work entrusted to him for the last one year. One week before the incident, Kale rented a house at Nayandahalli in Bengaluru and Naveen of a Hindu organization supported him, it is said.
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Nashik court sends ‘godman’ Kharat to seven-day judicial custody in third rape case
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Nashik (PTI): A court in Maharashtra's Nashik on Monday remanded self-styled godman Ashok Kharat to judicial custody till April 20 in a third case of rape against him for allegedly sexually exploiting a pregnant woman.
The special investigation team (SIT) produced Kharat for a virtual hearing in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate B N Ichpurani as his police custody in the case ended on Monday.
The SIT presented the remand report and sought judicial custody for Kharat, a former merchant navy officer. The court then remanded him to a seven-day judicial custody till April 20.
In the third case, Kharat, who was first arrested in mid-March, is accused of sexually exploiting a seven-month pregnant woman, the wife of his office staffer.
According to the complaint lodged by the victim's husband, the accused sexually assaulted the survivor on multiple occasions, including in his office in Nashik, between November 2023 and December 2025.
Kharat also conducted a ritual with the pregnant woman at a temple in Mirgaon village of Sinnar taluka of the district, it said.
Although the victim informed her husband about her plight, he did not believe her. But when he heard about complaints of Kharat's misbehaviour with other women, he planted a spy camera in the astrologer's office to find out the truth and recorded his acts.
The employee later handed over to the police a pen drive containing objectionable videos of the 'godman'.
Kharat faces nearly a dozen cases, eight of them related to sexual assaults.
The SIT, meanwhile, has filed an application in the court demanding Kharat's custody in another case. As the court granted them the necessary permission, the team will take the accused's custody from the Nashik Road Central Jail.
Kharat will be produced in court again in the fourth case on Tuesday.
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