No Lankesh-Malegaon links, SIT refutes media reports

Bengaluru | Friday | 10th May, 2019

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“SIT has not found in its investigation or mentioned in the charge sheet any link to Sadhvi Pragya, Malegaon blasts, Abhinav Bharat. Facebook/Gauri LankeshNEW DELHI: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh on Thursday denied a media report of linking Sadhvi Pragya Thakur’s involvement in the crime. The SIT issued an official statement, in which it refuted any connection between the killers of Gauri Lankesh and Pragya Thakur. No documents purporting the same have been submitted to the Hon’ble Court,” the statement read, as per reports published in PTI. So far arrested 16 people in connection with the 55-year-old Lankesh murder case, who was shot dead outside her west Bengaluru residence on September 5, 2017 when she returned from work and was opening the gates to park her car..