Gauri Lankesh  

SIT, under the leadership of Additional Commissioner of Police (West) B K Singh, has arrested 12 people in connection with the killing of Lankesh, known for her strong anti-Hindutva stand, on September 5 last year.

Gauri Lankesh was shot dead in front of her house in Bengaluru at around 8 PM on September 5 in 2017

With SIT intensifying its probe on the murder of journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh and three arrests the SIT is getting closer to finding the mastermind of this operation.

SIT is probing the Gauri murder case whereas CID is investigating Kalburgi’s killing. The probe team, while dealing with the Gauri case, is said to have found that the same people are likely to be involved in the murder of Kalburgi too.

So far nine people have been arrested by Karnataka police’s SIT in connection with journalist Gauri Lankesh’s murder case
 

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara lauded the state police and said the murder case of Gauri Lankesh would be solved soon. So far eight persons have been arrested.