BENGALURU: Sanatan Sanstha, a Goa-based pro-Hindu organisation, has alleged that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Gauri Lankesh murder case is torturing suspects and acquiring confessions from them.
The Sanstha had come below the SIT scanner after a few arrested individuals reportedly admitted to being contributors of a radical Hindu outfit which had links with it.
Sanstha spokesperson Chethan Rajhans, in a press free up on Thursday, termed the arrests unlawful and said it was being carried out by means of the Congress-JD(S) coalition to amplify “saffron terrorism”.
Waghmore’s hyperlink rattles native land
Sindagi in Vijayapura is not the same after Sunil Agasar and Parashuram Waghmore were held for their alleged role in Gauri case. Suspecting visitors to be police officers, locals shy clear of assembly them.
Accused no longer given legal support: Sanstha
The media were being fed imaginary stories concerning the Sanstha and other Hindu organisations, claimed Sanatan Sanstha spokesperson Chethan Rajhans on Thursday “One of the accused, Sujit Kumar, was apprehended on May 6 however was proven as arrested on May 20. Three other accused were apprehended on May 14, however were proven as arrested on May 21. This shows some of these accused were below unlawful detention for several days.”
He additionally alleged that the accused weren't provided legal support and crushed up by means of police. The use of pressure to obtain confessions raises questions concerning the investigation, he said.
The Sanstha had come below the SIT scanner after a few arrested individuals reportedly admitted to being contributors of a radical Hindu outfit which had links with it.
Sanstha spokesperson Chethan Rajhans, in a press free up on Thursday, termed the arrests unlawful and said it was being carried out by means of the Congress-JD(S) coalition to amplify “saffron terrorism”.
Waghmore’s hyperlink rattles native land
Sindagi in Vijayapura is not the same after Sunil Agasar and Parashuram Waghmore were held for their alleged role in Gauri case. Suspecting visitors to be police officers, locals shy clear of assembly them.
Accused no longer given legal support: Sanstha
The media were being fed imaginary stories concerning the Sanstha and other Hindu organisations, claimed Sanatan Sanstha spokesperson Chethan Rajhans on Thursday “One of the accused, Sujit Kumar, was apprehended on May 6 however was proven as arrested on May 20. Three other accused were apprehended on May 14, however were proven as arrested on May 21. This shows some of these accused were below unlawful detention for several days.”
He additionally alleged that the accused weren't provided legal support and crushed up by means of police. The use of pressure to obtain confessions raises questions concerning the investigation, he said.
Sanstha: SIT torturing Gauri case suspects
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