Bengaluru: Activists of the Gauri Hatya Virodhi Vedike gathered in protest at Anand Rao circle in Bengaluru on Tuesday opposing the slow pace in which investigations into journalist Gauri Lankesh’ murder. They tried to proceed towards Chief Minister’s residence but police took them into preventive custody.
Demanding a true response by none other than Chief Minister Siddraramaiah, as to why there has been no progress in the investigations into the murders of Gauri Lankesh and writer Prof M M Kalburgi earlier.
“The government has failed to bring the murderers to justice,” they said. Three months have passed since Gowri’s murder and 30 months since Prof Kalburgi’s murder.
Gauri’s sister Kavitha Lankesh, Vedike president Ananth Nayak and others participated. The police arrested them when they neared the CM’s official residence. Among those taken into custody were writer Chandrashekhara Patela and Kavitha Lankesh.
