Shrikant Pangarkar, an accused in the Gauri Lankesh murder case, has joined Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena in Jalna ahead of the Maharashtra assembly elections on November 20.
Chief Minister instructed the Additional Chief Secretary responsible for internal administration to assess the situation and take necessary actions.
The top court sought a response from the Karnataka government on a plea made by sister of slain journalist challenging the dropping of organised crime charges against accused Mohan Nayak in the case.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Kolhapur Police took custody of Sharad B. Kalaksar from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) early morning, and produced him before Kasbah-Bavda Court Judicial Magistrate S.S. Raul who sent him to police custody till June 18.
A city court on Tuesday asked Congress president Rahul Gandhi and CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury to appear before it on April 30 to respond to the charges of defaming RSS by allegedly linking it to journalist Gauri Lankesh's murder.
A bench of Justices S C Dharmadhikari and M S Karnik asked both the probe agencies to make a "sincere effort" towards tracing the absconding accused in Pansare and Dabholkar cases.
In an additional 9,235-page chargesheet filed before a city court, the SIT stated that a network within Sanatan Sanstha targeted Lankesh for no personal reasons.
Sources in the SIT claimed that Suresh had provided shelter to Parashuram Waghmare, who allegedly pulled the trigger, killing Lankesh outside her house here.
Making submissions before the court on Tuesday, Vedamurthy had alleged SIT had taken Kumar for a narco-analysis test in Gujarat, but it did not inform him, as per court directions.
Waghmare, who was picked up by the SIT earlier this week from Vijayapura district in north Karnataka, allegedly told SIT during interrogation that he was asked to kill Gauri Lankesh in May 2017.
A senior official in the Special Investigation Team also said the same weapon was used to shoot Lankesh, and rationalists Govind Pansare and M M Kalburgi.
In connection with the Gauri Lankesh case, the SIT has arrested Parshuram Wagmare, hailing from Sindagi
The Special Investigation Team, probing the murder, said it arrested alleged gunrunner K T Naveen Kumar, who was taken into police custody on March 2 for interrogation in connection with the case.
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