Gauri Lankesh case: Court rejects advocate's plea

BENGALURU: The third ACMM court docket on Wednesday rejected an utility filed by way of a city-based recommend, NP Amrutesh, searching for that lawyers of Naveen Kumar alias Hotte Manja, a suspect in the Gauri Lankesh killing, be allowed to be present all over the interrogation.

The court docket had heard the arguments of Amrutesh and senior public prosecutor Nirmal Rani on Tuesday and reserved its verdict.


The prosecutor hostile the appliance because the suspect had now not signed the unique vakalat nama and hence the recommend had no locus standi to represent the accused. Judge Prakash V upheld the contention of the prosecutor and pushed aside the appliance.


Naveen Kumar alias Hotte Manja, a resident of Maddur in Mandya district, was arrested by way of CCB police on February 18 after they recovered 15 rounds of are living bullets from him. On March 2, the special investigation team (SIT) probing Gauri's homicide took Naveen into their custody to query him.


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