Gauri Lankesh murder: Accused worked in four teams?
Bengaluru, June 14: When the SIT officials interrogated the main accused in the journalist Gauri Lankesh murder case, Parashuram Waghmore, they found that the accused have formed four teams to carry out the crime.
All the four teams have their hands in eliminating Gauri Lankesh. Interestingly, all the four teams have distributed the works among themselves. The first team was entrusted the responsibility of keeping vigil on the daily activities of the victim and collection of the writings of Gauri, videos of her speech, statements against Sangh Parivar and Hindutva and other documents. Later, all such collected documents, statements or write ups were passed to the second team.
The work of the second team was to verify those documents, speech copies and videos and submitting them to the third team, which was observing the moment of Gauri round-the-clock. This team has collected information on where does she go, what does she do, whom she meet, what time she returns home, number of CCTV cameras on the places where she passes and other details. In fact, all the details were handed over to the fourth team in writing. The accused have disclosed all these information during the interrogation, sources said.
After collecting the final information, the accused killed Gauri Lankesh at her house at RR Nagar in the city on September 5, 2017. Among the arrested, two members are said to be the members of the fourth team and investigation is on, sources said.
Kale suspected
The SIT suspected the involvement of Amol Kale of Puna in this case. It is said that an organization has given the contract to him to kill someone and he has prepared a plan to execute the work entrusted to him for the last one year. One week before the incident, Kale rented a house at Nayandahalli in Bengaluru and Naveen of a Hindu organization supported him, it is said.
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India-Oman free trade pact to give new energy to bilateral relations: PM Modi
Muscat (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between India and Oman will give new confidence and energy to the bilateral relations.
Speaking at the India-Oman Business Summit here, the visiting Prime Minister said the summit will give a new direction to the India-Oman partnership.
"Today, we are taking such a historic decision, the echo of which will be heard for many decades to come. Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement that is, CEPA, will give our partnership new confidence and new energy in the 21st century," the prime minister said.
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He said India’s nature has always been progressive and self-driven.
Whenever India grows, it helps its friends grow as well, Modi said and added India is progressing towards becoming the world’s third-largest economy.
"This is beneficial for the entire world. However, it is even more beneficial for Oman because, in addition to being close friends, we are also maritime neighbours. Our people know each other well. We have generations of trust in our business relations, and we understand each other’s markets very well," he said.
Modi invited companies from Oman to become partner in the growth story. He said India's economy is growing at a high rate because over the past 11 years, India has not just changed policies, but has also changed its economic DNA.
He informed the gathering about the reforms, including GST and IBC, India has implemented in the recent years.
Modi arrived here on Wednesday on a two-day visit.
India-Oman bilateral trade was about USD 10.5 billion (exports USD 4 billion and imports USD 6.54 billion) in 2024-25.
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