BENGALURU: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the killing of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh has named Hindu proper wing outfit Sanatan Sanstha in its further chargesheet filed earlier than a town courtroom.
In the nine,235-page chargesheet submitted earlier than the Principal Civil and Sessions courtroom here on Friday night time, it was additionally said that the killing of Lankesh was plotted for almost five years.
A community inside the Goa-based Sanatan Sanstha centered Lankesh for no non-public reasons, it said.
"Sanatan Sanstha members' involvement is there. We have named them. We have also mentioned its allied organisation," a most sensible officer within the SIT told PTI here Saturday.
Reacting to the fee sheet, Goa-based Sanatan Sanstha pushed aside its alleged link with the killing of Lankesh, pronouncing not one of the accused were its participants.
"None of the accused are participants of the Sanatan Sanstha. So a ways, the SIT has no longer said this officially. If the SIT mentions our title within the supplementary fee sheet, we will combat it legally.
So a ways, we have not got the reproduction (of the fee sheet)," Chetan Rajhans, Sanstha's head of verbal exchange, told PTI over telephone.
"Other than this, if any organisation indulges in maligning the name of the organisation without proof, it would face legal consequences," Rajhans said.
Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara, who holds the Home portfolio, Saturday said the government would quickly take a choice on banning organisations concerned within the killing of Lankesh.
"No discussions have taken place regarding the organisations involved in the case, but we will shortly take a decision on that," Parameshwara told newshounds.
He additionally refused to disclose information about the progress made within the investigation.
"The killer and the killed have no non-public or any other enmity.
Why she was killed? Because she believed in a definite ideology, she wrote and spoke on that.
So it must be an ideology and it must be an organisation," Special Public Prosecutor S Balan told PTI.
The SIT has additionally sought permission to research the case additional.
The first fee sheet within the sensational case was filed in May closing, 8 months after 55-year old Lankesh, recognized for her left-leaning and powerful anti-Hindutva views, was shot lifeless in front of her house here on September five closing 12 months.
As the murder triggered national outrage and well-liked condemnation, the Siddaramaiah-led govt constituted the SIT to probe the killing.
So a ways, 18 folks had been named as accused within the crime, together with shooter Parashuram Waghmare, masterminds Amol Kale, Sujith Kumar alias Praveen and Amit Degwekar, SIT resources said.
The gang could also be allegedly connected with the killing of 3 other rationalists M M Kalburgi, Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare, the resources added.
In the nine,235-page chargesheet submitted earlier than the Principal Civil and Sessions courtroom here on Friday night time, it was additionally said that the killing of Lankesh was plotted for almost five years.
A community inside the Goa-based Sanatan Sanstha centered Lankesh for no non-public reasons, it said.
"Sanatan Sanstha members' involvement is there. We have named them. We have also mentioned its allied organisation," a most sensible officer within the SIT told PTI here Saturday.
Reacting to the fee sheet, Goa-based Sanatan Sanstha pushed aside its alleged link with the killing of Lankesh, pronouncing not one of the accused were its participants.
"None of the accused are participants of the Sanatan Sanstha. So a ways, the SIT has no longer said this officially. If the SIT mentions our title within the supplementary fee sheet, we will combat it legally.
So a ways, we have not got the reproduction (of the fee sheet)," Chetan Rajhans, Sanstha's head of verbal exchange, told PTI over telephone.
"Other than this, if any organisation indulges in maligning the name of the organisation without proof, it would face legal consequences," Rajhans said.
Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara, who holds the Home portfolio, Saturday said the government would quickly take a choice on banning organisations concerned within the killing of Lankesh.
"No discussions have taken place regarding the organisations involved in the case, but we will shortly take a decision on that," Parameshwara told newshounds.
He additionally refused to disclose information about the progress made within the investigation.
"The killer and the killed have no non-public or any other enmity.
Why she was killed? Because she believed in a definite ideology, she wrote and spoke on that.
So it must be an ideology and it must be an organisation," Special Public Prosecutor S Balan told PTI.
The SIT has additionally sought permission to research the case additional.
The first fee sheet within the sensational case was filed in May closing, 8 months after 55-year old Lankesh, recognized for her left-leaning and powerful anti-Hindutva views, was shot lifeless in front of her house here on September five closing 12 months.
As the murder triggered national outrage and well-liked condemnation, the Siddaramaiah-led govt constituted the SIT to probe the killing.
So a ways, 18 folks had been named as accused within the crime, together with shooter Parashuram Waghmare, masterminds Amol Kale, Sujith Kumar alias Praveen and Amit Degwekar, SIT resources said.
The gang could also be allegedly connected with the killing of 3 other rationalists M M Kalburgi, Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare, the resources added.
Gauri killing; SIT files additional chargesheet naming Hindu outfit,says it was a 5-year plot
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