Two more suspects arrested in Gauri Lankesh murder
Bengaluru : A Special Investigation Team has arrested two more suspects under the Arms Act in the Gauri Lankesh murder case.
The two suspects - Amit Ramachandra Baddi and Ganesh Miski from Hubli city- were produced in the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court today.
The 3rd ACMM court granted 14 days of police custody to both Baddi and Miski. The FIR names 10 people of which one Nihal alias Dada is still absconding. The rest have been arrested.
Sources said that both Baddi and Miski were suspected to be involved In destroying the evidence and also to destroy the weapon and bike used in the murder.
Both suspects were arrested based on information given by Mohan Nayak who was arrested recently.
The SIT previously arrested seven people -- Mohan Nayak, KT Naveen Kumar alias Hotte Manja, Parashuram Waghmare, Amol Kale, Manohar Edve, Sujeeth Kumar alias Praveen and Amit Degvekar- in this case.
Sources said that the alleged killer Parashuram Waghmare received gun training by two marksmen in July 2017, two months before the murder. Waghmare was trained in the forests of Belgaum district with an air gun pistol. He received just two days of initial training on how to shoot from a close range.
Senior journalist Gauri Lankesh, a well-known critic of the right-wing forces, was shot dead at her house in Bengaluru in September 2017.
Core members of a major Hindu organisation are believed to be the mastermind behind her murder. The organisation had 37 names in their hit list and Gauri Lankesh was one of them.
courtesy : indiatoday.in
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Death toll from Israeli strikes in northeast Lebanon rises from 8 to 24, Lebanese news agency says
Deir al-Balah, Nov 1: Israeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 24 people in northeastern Lebanon, the country's news agency said, raising the death toll from eight there.
It was the latest deadly toll in the area since the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah escalated last month.
Israel's military has said that its operation in Lebanon is targeting Hezbollah's military infrastructure.
Lebanon's state National news Agency reported four airstrikes in different villages across country's northeast, saying rescuers were still searching for survivors in Younine, a town in the Bekaa Valley, from the rubble of a targeted house.
Hussein Haj Hassan, a Lebanese lawmaker representing the region in Baalbek-Hermel region, said that 60,000 people have already fled their homes in the area due to Israeli bombardment.
