Bengaluru, September 5: “One year has gone after my birth in Gauri. I am walking as if a new-born baby which has all pain, injustice and frustration, tells me to do so”, said noted actor and director Prakash Rai.

Speaking at a programme organized to mark the first anniversary of the murder of Gauri Lankesh, here on Wednesday, he said that “we have spoken a lot in the last one year. We expressed our anger, indignation, helplessness and pains very openly. When we lost Gauri a year ago, we have pointed towards somebody and now, all the investigations are also telling the same thing”, he said.

“We have to change our fights. Otherwise, they will change the good virtue of the people. We should think by forgetting our pain and Gauri. Gauri is a story which has no end. She has exposed the injustice and curiosity through her sacrifice. With this, the conspiracies to kill Kalburgi, Pansare and Dabholkar are clearly visible”, he said.

The dams were getting more water than their capacity. Now, the dams have to be broken. Powerful people would come to power and trying to keep the power by doing more murders and attacks. People have become sheep. Who will be going to protect them? When those who are at the helm of affairs were the murderers, who will protect them? They themselves have to protect, he added.

“Today, more than humanity, Hindu religion should be protected. Common people should be educated about it. We will all die one day. We are not eternal. But what is the method of dying? Till our death, we will have our life. Gauri, Dabholkar, Pansare, Kalburgi have not died naturally. They were killed. They were killed yesterday and tomorrow, we will be in their places”, he lamented.

“We were making mockery of Manmohan Singh as dumb. But now there is a Prime Minister. He is always silent. This is very dangerous. This is a demon-like silence. Though the country is burning, he is silent. Observing everything silently, he is encouraging the murderers. The words of Modi have become like disclaimers on the cigarette packs that ‘smoking is injurious to health’. Everyone should understand this”, Rai said.

“We are being targeted as urban naxals and anti-developments. Thus, they have been doing conspiracy very systematically. We should be alert over this conspiracy”, he said.



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Gangolli: In an operation, the Gangolli police arrested a couple accused of a house robbery within seven hours of the incident.

The accused, identified as Vinayak (41) and his wife Pramila (30) from Gujjadi, were taken into custody following a coordinated investigation by the police team.

The robbery took place on the morning of January 21 when a bag containing jewelry was stolen from a house near Trasi Beach. Among the stolen items were a 16-gram gold necklace, a 16-gram bangle, and three gold rings weighing 3 grams, with the total value of the jewelry estimated at Rs 2 lakh. The culprits fled the scene on a scooty.

Following the registration of the case at the Gangolli police station, SSI Harish R. and a team comprising officers Shantaram, Raju, Nagaraj, Raghavendra, Sandeep Kurani, Maruti Nayak, and Dinesh swiftly gathered intelligence and tracked down the suspects by 8 p.m. on the same day. The stolen gold ornaments and the vehicle used in the crime have been recovered.

The accused were presented before the court, and further legal proceedings are underway.

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