BENGALURU, Oct 3: Nearly a month after journalist- activist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead in an audacious attack here, Karnataka minister Ramalinga Reddy has claimed that the SIT probing the incident has identified the killers.
The home minister, however, refused to divulge further details, saying the Special Investigation Team (SIT) was gathering evidence.
“We have got clues, but we cannot tell things to the media for now because we should have correct evidence for the clues we have got,” he said.
“If there is no proper evidence when we file the charge sheet in the court, it won’t stand. So we are trying to collect the evidence properly. We know who has done it (the killing) and what…. everything we know,” Reddy told reporters at Chikkaballapur, 35 kms from here, on Sunday.
Gauri Lankesh, known to be an anti-establishment voice with strident anti-right wing views, was shot dead at close range by unknown assailants at her home here on the night of September 5.
The killing had led to national outrage and protests by several groups over “rising intolerance” in the country and attempts to muzzle dissent with the criticism targeted at the Modi government and right wing groups.
Reddy had on September 9 made similar claims about the SIT having gathered “some clues” in connection with the case. PTI
