Bengaluru Police has released sketches of two main suspects behind the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh.

Lankesh, well known critic of the right wing forces, was shot dead outside her Bengaluru residence on September 5. Gauri Lankesh was the editor of weekly Kannada tabloid magazine Lankesh Patrike, columnist in newspapers, a panelist on TV channels besides being an activist.

According to DK Police, IG Police, two main suspects have been identified. "The sketches have been developed with inputs from some witnesses and our technical inputs. The accused were staying in Bengaluru for 7 days."

However, the IG claimed that these suspects have no connection with the Narendra Dabholkar murder.

"The suspects, aged 25 and 35 years, had carried out a recee outside Lankesh's house multiple times. We have interrogated over 200 people so far and analysed 73 TB of CCTV footage," said Singh.