Gauri Lankesh murder case: SIT arrests four men in Davanagere
Davanagere: A Special Investigation Team of the Karnataka police have arrested four persons in connection with the murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, reports Indianexpress.com.
These four arrested, who were allegedly guiding operations in Karnataka to plan the murder of Bhagwan, were nabbed from Davanagere bus stand on May 21. The report also mentions that the four arrested men were linked to radical right-wing outfit Sanatan Sanstha.
According to an Indianexpress.com report, the arrested are Amol Kale alias Bhaisab (39) from Maharashtra, Amit Degwekar alias Pradeep, 39, a resident of Goa; Manohar Edave, 28, a resident of Vijayapura; and Sujeet Kumar alias Praveen, 37, from Mangaluru.
Sujeet Kumar was arrested first and reportedly produced before a magistrate on May 20 while the other three were produced on May 21. They are scheduled to be in police custody until June 1. The SIT team that conducted searches at over eight places in Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Goa; is believed to have discovered key evidence on May 22.
“The plot to kill Bhagwan came to fore earlier this year following the arrest of Hindu Yuva Sena leader KT Naveen Kumar for possession of illegal arms on February 18. The probe revealed that a group of people, including Naveen Kumar, were surveying Bhagwan’s home to carry out killing on the lines of the Lankesh murder. Naveen Kumar is said to have told investigators that he received instructions in the plot to kill Lankesh and Bhagwan from a Mangalore-based man he could identify only as Praveen. The Hindu Janajagruti Samithi activist Sujeet Kumar has now been identified as Praveen,” indianexpress.com reported.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
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