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more-inThe Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh made its 14th arrest in the case on Monday. Investigators suspect that Srikant Pangarkar was in Bengaluru on September 5, 2017, the day Gauri Lankesh was assassinated. Srikant Pangarkar, a former Shiv Sena councillor of Jalna Municipal Corporation in Maharashtra, has been remanded into SIT custody till September 28. A senior SIT official said the other accused in the Gauri case had told the police that Srikant Pangarkar had attended a few of their meetings in Maharashtra, and in Belagavi. Amol Kale was constantly in touch with Srikant in the months before and after September 5, 2017 when Gauri was shot..