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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Stray dogs case: We will play video, ask you what is humanity, SC tells petitioner
New Delhi (PTI): Responding to a petitioner in the stray dogs case who objected to some rules framed by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) saying "inhuman" treatment was being meted out to them, the Supreme Court on Thursday said a video will be played in the next hearing, "asking you what is humanity".
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who is appearing in the stray dogs case, told a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta that a three-judge special bench which was scheduled to assemble on Thursday to hear the matter was cancelled.
"It will come on January 7," Justice Nath said.
Sibal said, "The problem is that the MCD, in the meantime, has framed some rules which are completely contrary.color:red;"
He urged the bench to hear the matter on Friday, saying authorities don't even have dog shelters. "It is very very inhuman what is being done," Sibal said.
Justice Mehta, in an apparent reference to the stray dog menace, said "On the next date, we will play a video for your benefit and we will ask you what is humanity," .
Sibal responded that they will also play a video to show what was happening.
"The problem is your lordships has passed an order and we respect that. But the point is, there are statutory rules," he said.
When the bench said it would consider the matter on January 7, Sibal said the authorities will implement the rules in December itself.
"They will be implementing it and they will be removing the dogs. They don't have shelters," he said.
Justice Nath said, "It is alright Mr Sibal. Let them do it, we will consider."
The bench said it would hear the matter on January 7.
On November 7, taking note of the "alarming rise" in dog bite incidents within institutional areas like educational institutions, hospitals and railway stations, the apex court directed the forthwith relocation of stray canines to designated shelters after due sterilisation and vaccination.
A three-judge special bench had also said the stray dogs so picked up shall not be released back in the place they were picked up from.
The bench had directed the authorities to ensure the removal of all cattle and other stray animals from state highways, national highways and expressways.
It had said recurrence of dog bite incidents within institutional areas, including sports complexes, reflected not only administrative apathy but also a "systemic failure" to secure these premises from preventable hazards.
The top court had passed a slew of directions in the suo motu case over the stray dog menace.
It is hearing a suo motu case, initiated on July 28 over a media report on stray dog bites leading to rabies, particularly among children, in the national capital.
