Mangaluru, June 14: Mangaluru-based rationalist and Rationalists Association national president Prof Narendra Nayak lodged a complaint against hatching out a plot for the third time to kill him after the murder of rationalist Prof MM Kalburgi and journalist Gauri Lankesh.

Prof Nayak said that he has lodged the complaint following a suspicious movement of a stranger before his flat and previous incidents. On June 12, a stranger came to the flat where Prof Nayak is living and said he would require a labourer to his teacher. Suspecting his attitude and movement, when the flat watchman asked him, he fled the scene, it is said.

Speaking to Varthabharati, Prof Nayak said that the stranger came to his flat on Tuesday. Because of his suspicious attitude, flat watchman asked him. But he left the place without giving any answer. When this incident happened, he was in Tamil Nadu and he has reached Mangaluru on Thursday. Now, he has given a complaint against this incident to Urva police station, he said.

In last March and November, murder attempt was made against Prof Nayak and even he had received a threatening call. But the purpose of the stranger is not yet known. But he has given the complaint based on the previous attempts, he said.



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Mumbai (PTI): The gunning down of Badlapur case accused Akshay Shinde on Monday was the "killing of justice", said Asim Sarode, lawyer for the two minor girls he allegedly sexually assaulted.

Shinde was killed near Mumbra Bypass around 6:15pm when he allegedly snatched the gun of a policeman while he was being ferried in a police vehicle as part of a probe into a case registered on the complaint of his former wife.

After he shot and injured an API, another personnel from the escort team fired at him, and he was declared dead by doctors at a nearby hospital.

"While representing the two minor girls, I noticed it was becoming uncomfortable for the local politics of the Thane district and even for the educational institution where Akshay Shinde was working. Shinde's death in such a manner is killing of justice," Sarode told a regional news channel.

"Now, the case of sexual assault of the two minor girls will get sidelined. The case of these two minor girls was becoming difficult for the educational institute, as it is affiliated with a certain political family. Such a practice would lower the confidence of people in police and the judiciary," he claimed.

Sarode said he will be filing a plea before the Bombay High Court demanding thorough inquiry into the firing incident.

"Shinde's case could have brought up certain aspects that would have been negative politically for the government. I wonder how Shinde could access the gun and how he could unlock it when his hands were tied. This is political murder and is absolutely wrong," he said.