NEW DELHI: The Bengaluru Magistrate court on Friday sent T
Naveen Kumar, an accused in the
Gauri Lankesh murder case, to Special Investigation Team (SIT) custody for five days.
Naveen Kumar alias Hotte Manja, a resident of Maddur in
Karnataka's
Mandya district and and leader of
Hindu Yuva Sena, was arrested by police on February 18 after they recovered 15 rounds of live bullets from him. On March 2, the SIT probing Lankesh's murder
took Naveen into their custody
+ to question him.
Gauri Lankesh (55), known as an anti-establishment voice with strident anti-right wing views, was shot dead at close range by unknown assailants outside her Bengaluru home on September 5 last year.
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It is suspected that Naveen provided logistics to the killer by conducting a recce around Lankesh's house on September 3 and 5 last year. CCTV images obtained from the crime scene show a man riding a red-black Bajaj Pulsar bike and wearing a full-face helmet while conducting the recce. The SIT had Naveen ride a bike in its custody. Those videos and images have been sent to the Forensic Sciences Laboratory for analysis.
According to officials, FSL will take at least one month to ascertain the similarities between Naveen and the man in the picture.
Gauri Lankesh (File photo)
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