A Panchnama witness involved in the identity of a house in the Belagavi region of Karnataka, who was allegedly used to finalize the conspiracy to kill journalist Gauri Lankesh, has complained of receiving a threat before his visit to a special court in Bengaluru to test the 17 persons arrested on September 5, 2017.
A witness running a business in Belagavi rented the house, used by members of a right -wing crime syndicate involved in the murder of Gauri Lankesh. When he was identified by three accused men in the case – Sharad (Kalaskar), Ganesh (Miskin), and Amit (Baddi) – the house.
The 55 -year -old witness, called in the witness box last week, complained to the state’s Public Prosecutor (SPP) to receive a threatened phone call before his visit, and based on the complaint, the SPP filed a memorandum in the special court during the test on 28 May.
The court said, “Learned SPP.
The prosecution said, “Despite threats, the witness clung to his statement in court.”
During the test, the witness said that she had hired a house in Belagavi, and police officers brought two suspects in the murder case – Ganesh (Misskin) and Amit (Badadi) – in the house in August 2018. A fourth accused was also brought, but the witness claimed that his name had been forgotten.
In court, the witness identified Amit (Baddi), Srikanth (Pangkar), and Sharad (Kalaskar), who was brought to the house in the accused persons where there was an alleged conspiracy, but he said that he could not identify the fourth person due to the passage of time.
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During the testing of the murder case last week, one of the prosecution witnesses became hostile. The witness had earlier made a detailed statement to a magistrate, which was about participation in several training camps for the use of guns and explosives organized by a Hindutva syndicate, which has been implicated in the murder of Gauri Lankesh.
The 37 -year -old prosecution witness to join politics at the grassroots level in the Belagavi region of Karnataka was declared hostile by the state’s Special Public Prosecutor on Wednesday when he denied all the statements made before a magistrate under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 before a magistrate in September 2018.
The witness had identified several persons arrested for the murder of Gauri Lankesh as those who participated in training camps had also rejected the Test Identification Parade, who participated in Bangalore Jail in November 2018 and claimed that they had identified the accused persons under the police duras.
During a cross-examination in the court after the prosecution was declared hostile by the prosecution, the witness denied the allegation that he was distracted by his earlier statements due to pressure from the accused persons-most of which were granted bail last year.
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Gauri Lankesh died, when four bullets were fired from four bullets, a person now recognized by a person identified as a former worker of Parashuram Vaghmore, right -wing Shri Ram Sene Sangathan.
A forensic analysis of four empty cartridges and four bullets fired to kill Lankesh that the bullets and cartridges were similar to signs, which were found on the signs found on bullets and cartridges seized from the site of murder of Kannada scholar and researcher MM Calbergi in North Karnataka city on August 30, 2015.
Comparison of ballistic evidence from Lankesh and Kalbargi cases revealed that 7.65 mm of country-made guns used in two murders in Karnataka were used on February 16, 2015 in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, 81, leftist thinker Govind Pansare.
Ballistic evidence indicated that one of the two guns used in the Pansare murder was used on August 20, 2013 to kill 69 -year -old rationalist Narendra Dabholkar in Pune.
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The Karnataka Special Investigation Team (SIT) has named 17 people of right -wing fringe organizations for the conspiracy and murder of Gauri Lankesh. The accused have been accused of murder and participation in an organized crime activity under the Karnataka Control of Organized Crime Act, (KCOCA) 2000.
“The members of this organization targeted the individuals who are disqualified towards their beliefs and ideology. The members strictly followed the guidelines and principles described in a book ‘Kshatra Dharma Sadhana’ published by Sanatan Sanskar, as it was said on 23 November 2018 after the 9,235-page chargashit.
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