Bengaluru: The Senior Journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh has been brutally murdered at her home Around 8 pm last night, as she stepped out of her car outside her home in Bangalore to open the gate, seven shots were fired at her at close range, Three of the bullets hit her and killed her on the spot, the killers fired at a close range and they were on bikes, Each target was shot in the chest and head, “The police suspect that Ms Lankesh was shot by professional killers and hope they were caught on CCTV camera when they possible recede the area, The police have wanted help to unlock the password-protected digital video recorder extracted from two CCTVs that the senior editor had installed at her house, The house is jammed between two vacant plots and the editor’s family had urged her to install the cameras.
The police have traced the route where she took from work to home and are contacting various establishments for help to retrieve CCTV footage, No witnesses have come into view so far, The state Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy said that “she never shared anything about a threat with her family or with the police, but “Last week she called me, she wanted to meet me, I told her to come the same day but she told me, that she will meet me on Monday, But she haven’t come”, senior lawyer BT Venkatesh who had known the editor for 25 years said that, “we feel it’s one group or organization that’s carrying out these attacks against people who rationalists and anti-establishment”, Accordingly, in 2015, there were two killings of leftist thinker Govind Pansare in Maharashtra, and in the year 2013, there were two murders of rational and anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar, in each case there were horrendous similarities.
