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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Patan (Gujarat) (PTI): Police have registered an FIR against 15 students of a medical college in Gujarat's Patan district following the death of an 18-year-old student who was allegedly ragged by them, officials said on Monday.

The accused, all second-year MBBS students, allegedly made some juniors, including the victim, stand in a hostel room for more than three hours on Saturday night and subjected them to "mental and physical torture," as per the First Information Report (FIR).

They have booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and other offences, the FIR said.

The accused students have been suspended from their hostel and academic activities until further orders, said officials from the GMERS Medical College and Hospital at Dharpur in Patan.

The victim, Anil Methaniya, a first-year MBBS student, fell unconscious and died allegedly after being made to stand for three hours during ragging by his seniors at a hostel of the college on Saturday night, the college dean, Dr Hardik Shah, said on Sunday.

The college's anti-ragging committee chaired by Dr Shah took the statements of 26 students -- 11 of the first-year and 15 second-year students.

The committee found that 11 first-year students were subjected to ragging by a group of 15 second-year students, a college official said on Monday.

As per the FIR lodged at Balisana police station shortly after midnight on Monday, the 15 accused called 11 first-year students, including Methaniya and his classmates, to a hostel room on Saturday night for "introduction".

They made the juniors stand for nearly three-and-a half hours while forcing them to sing and dance, utter abusive words and not leave the room.

Methaniya's health deteriorated as the students were subjected to mental and physical torture. The victim fainted and fell down at around midnight. He was rushed to a hospital where doctors declared him brought dead, the FIR stated.

Based on a complaint by the college's additional dean Dr Anil Bhathija, the FIR was lodged against 15 students under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, wrongful confinement, unlawful assembly, and using obscene words.