How probe in 2017 Gauri Lankesh murder unlocked leads in 2013 killing of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar | Bangalore News
It was a probe by a Special Investigation Team of the Karnataka Police into the September 5, 2017, shooting of journalist Gauri Lankesh, 55, at her home in Bengaluru that cracked open the CBI investigations in the August 20, 2013 murder in Pune of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, 69, by members of a right-wing extremist group. On Friday, a sessions court in Pune convicted two persons — Sachin Andhure and Sharad Kalaskar — to life imprisonment following a trial where they were identified as the shooters who gunned down Dabholkar on the morning of August 20, 2013, while he was out for a morning walk in Pune. The court, however, acquitted three conspirators in the case. The ballistic analysis reports for the two murders in Karnataka in 2015 and 2017, the SIT’s arrest of a man who plotted the murders, the discovery of a diary he kept with the coded names of shooters, trainers and logistics providers and the arrest of a shooter and trainer for the 2017 murder by the SIT — all of these …