Bengaluru, June 16: Killers of journalist Gauri Lankesh used Operation Amma as code word during planning. They used the word Amma instead of Gauri Lankesh throughout their operation, SIT investigation revealed.

The accused have written the details of the murder plot in a dairy in Marathi mixed language. The investigators have decoded the language and also the contact numbers written in it. The investigators have also found two more names of persons that the accused had plotted to kill, officers said.

The accused had used coil phones to contact each other since one year and always used code words while speaking.

Parashuram Vaghmore who is said to be the man shot Gauri Lankesh, has confessed that after agreeing to kill Gouri the person who selected him for the task had trained him to shoot the target with his air gun investigators said.

Investigating officers said that a person from Karnataka had handed over the list of more than 25 rationalist thinkers who speak against Hindutva, to Amol Kale. It included secular thinking leaders and swamiji's, 10 from Karnataka and 16 from other states.

The family members of accused Parashuram Vaghmore has arrived to the city and SIT is investigating them. SIT has questioned Vaghmore's father Ashok Waghmare, mother Janaki Bai and father-in-law Ashok Kambale.

SIT officers stated that, Amol Kale is the main conspirator of Gauri Lankesh murder. Parashuram Vaghmore executed the crime. The search is on for Nihal alias Dada and other two accused in the case.



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Ghaziabad(UP) (PTI): A 48-year-old woman was killed allegedly by her tenants when she went to their flat to collect rent, police said on Thursday.

The deceased, identified as Deepshikha Sharma, was killed around 11 pm at Aura Chimera Society, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Nandgram Upasna Pandey said.

Preliminary investigation revealed that Deepshikha and her husband, Umesh Sharma, owned two flats in the society, one of which had been rented out to a couple.

She went to the rented flat to collect rent but did not return till late night, raising suspicion.

Her maid, along with neighbours, went to the flat to look for her, following which Deepshikha's body was recovered stuffed inside a red bag from the flat, the ACP said.

Police were informed at around 11.15 pm through the PRV, after which a team reached the spot and arrested the couple, identified as Ajay Gupta (35) and Akriti Gupta (33), she said.

A case was registered and the body was sent for post-mortem examination. Further investigation is underway, the ACP added.