Bengaluru, June 16: Killers of journalist Gauri Lankesh used Operation Amma as code word during planning. They used the word Amma instead of Gauri Lankesh throughout their operation, SIT investigation revealed.

The accused have written the details of the murder plot in a dairy in Marathi mixed language. The investigators have decoded the language and also the contact numbers written in it. The investigators have also found two more names of persons that the accused had plotted to kill, officers said.

The accused had used coil phones to contact each other since one year and always used code words while speaking.

Parashuram Vaghmore who is said to be the man shot Gauri Lankesh, has confessed that after agreeing to kill Gouri the person who selected him for the task had trained him to shoot the target with his air gun investigators said.

Investigating officers said that a person from Karnataka had handed over the list of more than 25 rationalist thinkers who speak against Hindutva, to Amol Kale. It included secular thinking leaders and swamiji's, 10 from Karnataka and 16 from other states.

The family members of accused Parashuram Vaghmore has arrived to the city and SIT is investigating them. SIT has questioned Vaghmore's father Ashok Waghmare, mother Janaki Bai and father-in-law Ashok Kambale.

SIT officers stated that, Amol Kale is the main conspirator of Gauri Lankesh murder. Parashuram Vaghmore executed the crime. The search is on for Nihal alias Dada and other two accused in the case.



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Yadgir: In a shocking incident reported from Devathkal village of Surapur taluk, two boys, Shreyanna (8) and Yuvaraja (9), who were grazing cattle, died of drowning on Sunday afternoon as they went for a bath in a stream nearby.

The boys had reportedly gone missing in the waters of the stream on Sunday afternoon. The family members found the boys’ clothes on the banks of the stream but, as their search for the boys proved futile, they brought the matter to the notice of the police and fire brigade.

The police team, led by Deputy Superintendent of Police Javed Inamdar and Inspector Anand Wagmode, along with the staff members of the fire brigade, searched for the missing boys on Sunday night, but failed to find the boys. The search was resumed on Monday morning and, at around 9 am on Monday, the bodies of both boys were found in the stream, sources have said.

A case has been filed by the Surapur Police and investigation is underway.