Plot to kill SK Bhagavan: Four accused handed over to SIT
Bengaluru, May 31: Four accused who were arrested on charges of hatching a plot to kill critic, writer and rationalist SK Bhagawan were handed over to the SIT which has been investigating the journalist Gauri Lankesh murder case, for ten days.
Sujith Kumar alias Praveen (37) of Kappanahalli in Shikaripur taluk, Amol Kale and Amith alias Pradeep (38) of Maharashtra, and Manohar Dundappa Yadave alias Manoj (29) of Rathnapur village in Vijayapura were taken into the custody and interrogating.
Upparpet police who produced the accused before the First ACMM Court in the city on Wednesday requested the court to handover them to the police custody for 13 more days to interrogate them in Gauri Lankesh murder case. Later, the judge handed them over to the SIT for ten days.
About the case
In the beginning of the investigation of Gauri murder case, the police have listened to the mobile call records of some organisations’ leaders on suspicion. In that, Naveen and Sujith have conversed about killing SK Bhagavan. Suddenly, the police have taken Naveen into custody in Birur in Chikmagalur district. Later, Sujith who was absconding was arrested in Mangaluru recently. The police have recovered two black colour bags, four mobile batteries, Bengaluru map, four mobile phones, mobile number diary, photos of Shiva-Parvati and Krishna-Rukmini and Rs 22,931 cash from the accused.
Naveen Kumar has formed an organization in the name of Hindu Yuva Sene and participated in a meeting in Goa in June 2017. He made a provocative speech on that day that those who are against the religion should be shot. Sujith who was present at the meeting has introduced himself to Naveen.
Sujith who has studied up to SSLC, is a son of farmer couple. But has more attachment towards Hindutva. He left his home in 2001 and developed friendship with other accused. It is said that Naveen, Sujith, Amith, Amol, Manohar Dundappa Yadave and Nihal have met at a forest near Gundal reservoir in Chamarajanagar district in November 2017.
A SIT officer said that four accused were taken into custody with a hope of getting some information on Gauri Lankesh murder. Investigation would be intensified, he added.
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We need to recognise we have problem with Security Council: UN SG Guterres
United Nations (PTI): In a sharp critique, UN chief Antonio Guterres said there is a need to recognise “we have a problem with the Security Council”, which does not reflect the current world and is not allowed to stop conflicts because of the use of veto by its permanent members.
“I think we need to recognise that we have a problem with the Security Council. The Security Council today no longer represents the world as the world exists. It represents the world after 1945,” Guterres said at a press conference in Beirut on Saturday in response to a question.
He pointed out that three permanent members of the 15-nation Council are from Europe, one from Asia, and one is the United States, while there are no permanent members from Africa or Latin America.
Even from Asia, that “obviously is a continent with an enormous weight in global population and global wealth”, there is just one permanent member - China.
“And so, the Council has a problem of legitimacy and a problem of efficiency because of the vetoes. And what we have witnessed is that time and time again, when we have situations of conflict and when it's necessary to stop the conflict, there is a veto that emerges, and that does not allow the Security Council to act. That, unfortunately, is something that we are witnessing time and time again, and I am not hoping that in the short term, things will change,” he said.
The Council is made up of five veto-wielding permanent members, China, France, Russia, the UK and the US, while 10 non-permanent members are elected to serve two-year terms at the horseshoe table and do not have veto powers.
India has been at the forefront of decades-long efforts calling for reform of the Security Council, including expansion in both its permanent and non-permanent categories, saying the 15-nation Council, founded in 1945, is not fit for purpose in the 21st Century and does not reflect contemporary geopolitical realities.
India has underscored that it rightly deserves to sit as a permanent member in the Security Council.
India last sat at the UN high table as a non-permanent member in 2021-22. A polarised Security Council has failed to deal with current peace and security challenges, with Council members sharply divided on conflicts such as the Ukraine war, the Israel-Hamas conflict and the latest US-Israel war against Iran.
