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Court orders shifting of 3 Gauri Lankesh murder accused from B’luru to Mumbai

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Bengaluru: The Bombay High Court has ordered the shifting of Amol Kale (former convenor of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti and also a key accused in the Dabholkar murder), Amit Baddi and Ganesh Miskin from Bengaluru to Mumbai’s Arthur Road prison.

Kale, Baddi and Miskin are three out of the 18 people accused in the murder case of activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh.

The trio is currently lodged in Bengaluru Central Prison in ‘Parappana Agrahara’ after it was arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted to solve the murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, who was shot dead on September 5, 2017.

Justice Mridula Bhatkar directed the authorities to shift Kale, Baddi and Miskin to Mumbai while hearing a plea by the Anti-Terrorism Squad of Maharashtra, which is probing the Nalasopara Arms Haul Case against members of fringe groups like ‘Hindu Janjagruti’, ‘Sanathan Sanstha’ and their offshoot organisations.

To this effect, a notice has been sent to the Bengaluru Central Jail Superintendent and the Maharashtra government, asking the latter to ensure adequate security arrangements for the transportation of the accused.

The three accused have also allegedly played a role in the murders of rationalists M M Kalburgi, Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare.

“The Bombay High Court has given this order so that the accused can defend themselves in the court and also so that the ATS can seek their custody to get vital evidence to clinch the case,” said SIT sources in Karnataka to The News Minute.

The trio was initially arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in connection with the Arms Haul Case and had their custody for less than a week in October 2018 before a Mumbai sessions court sent them to judicial custody.

Sources from SIT told The News Minute that Sharad Kalaskar, the alleged killer of Narendra Dabholkar, arrested by the Maharashtra ATS in August, was given the two murder weapons in the Gauri case after its execution in Belagavi. Kalaskar was also allegedly asked by Amol Kale to make indigenous guns for these groups.

The SIT had objected to share custody of the other common accused before concluding investigations in June 2018.

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