Gauri Lankesh murder case: 2 people arrested
Bangalore, July 24 (IBNS): The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the Gauri Lankesh murder case, has arrested two more people in connection with the killing of the journalist.
The arrested people have been identified as Ganesh Miskin and Amit Baddi.
"They were picked up on Sunday by the SIT probing the case and were produced before a magistrate, who remanded them in police custody until August 6, according to the request for their custody," Hindustan Times reported.
Amith Baddi is a goldsmith while the other made incense sticks, officials told media.
Their roles in the murder have not been revealed by the police so far.
The latest arrests took the number of people arrested in connection with the murder of the journalist to nine.
Lankesh, a popular journalist who took stands against Right-wing ideology, was shot three times by some unknown assailants outside her residence last year.
Lankesh, 55, was the editor of a Kannada weekly Lankesh Patrikewas.
Gauri Lankesh's murder had sparked country-wide protests.
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