Gauri Lankesh, a senior South Dravidian journalist celebrated for her criticism of Hindu ideology, was shot dead at her home on weekday evening.
According to police, a minimum of 3 suspects were concerned and Lankesh was found dead on her porch around 8pm with bullet wounds to her head and chest. tv reports same seven bullets were unemployed at her and 3 hit her.
Lankesh, 55, was the female offspring of far-famed poet-turned-journalist P Lankesh. She was the editor of Hindu deity Lankesh Patrike, writing usually against Sangh organisations and communal violence within the country.
“This isn't the death of a journalist, however the death of democracy and constitutional values. She had raised her voice against communal violence with North American country and that we apprehend that each one our lives ar at risk. however we tend to failed to expect this,” same KL Ashok of the Karnataka-based Komu Souharda Vedike (Communal Harmony Forum), WHO worked closely with Lankesh.
Ashok same there “was no doubt” that Lankesh’s killing was a part of a bigger conspiracy to kill rationalist ideas. “Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, millimetre Kalburgi and currently Hindu deity Lankesh. They were all rationalist thinkers, which is why they need been dead,” he added.
In 2015, Left advocator associate degreed South Dravidian author faculty member millimetre Kalburgi was shot dead in an exceedingly similar manner by an unidentified gunman at the threshold of his home.
Bengaluru deputy commissioner of police MN Anucheth same, “It is simply too early to treat the problem, we tend to cannot reveal to any extent further details at the instant.”
Politicians Mysore home minister Ramalinga Reddy same there have been 2 CCTV cameras and 3 police groups were performing on the case.
People began gathering outside her residence as news of her murder unfold and protests started at the Corporation Circle within the heart of Bengaluru and close to her home.
In Gregorian calendar month, Lankesh was guilty by a court for defaming 2 BJP leaders for articles printed in her periodical in 2008. She was sentenced to 6 months in jail and asked to pay Rs. 10,000 penalty. Lankesh had been granted bail.
Journalists also as many politicians condemned the killing.
Shortly when the murder, Mysore chief minister Siddaramaiah expressed shock in posts on Twitter: “In reality, this is often associate degree assassination on democracy. In her passing, Mysore has lost a powerful progressive voice, and that i have lost a friend”.
Congress vice chairman Rahul Gandhi too spoke out against the murder.
In associate degree interview she gave to Newslaundry in 2016, Lankesh expressed considerations over freedom of expression being vulnerable from rightist trolls.
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Two months when Kalburgi’s murder, a young Dalit author of a book critiquing the Hindu class structure was kidnapped and molested by goons in Mysore. author Huchangi Prasad same his assaulters unbroken job him a traitor.
Before Kalburgi, Maharashtra rationalist and communist leader Govind Pansare was shot together with his adult female throughout a morning walk on February sixteen, 2015, close to their target Kolhapur. He died in hospital four days later.
The main suspect within the Pansare murder is allegedly related to Sanatan Sanstha, a Hindu rightist cluster.