Gauri Lankesh: Man who handed over gun held

Bengaluru | Friday | 20th July, 2018

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Waghmore was the sixth to be held.Investigators are sure Mohan is a vital cog in the conspiracy to kill Gauri. Mohan is close to Amol Kale from Pune and Manohar Edave from Vijayapura district. Both Kale and Edave have been arrested. BENGALURU: A youth, suspected to have handed over the 7.65mm gun to the alleged killer of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh hours before he executed the job, was arrested on Wednesday night, sources privy to the case said.Mohan Naik, a resident of Sampaje, near Sullia, on the Dakshina Kannada-Kodagu border, was picked up from his village by sleuths of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Gauri killing. The killer weapon is yet to be traced.CBI personnel are believed to have picked up Kale, Mohan and Veerendra Tawade in connection with the 2015 killing of CPI leader Govind Pansare in Kolhapur, Maharashtra.While Tawade was arrested and charged, Kale and Mohan were released..