The Special Investigation Team probing the killing of Gauri Lankesh will question a criminal recently arrested by the Central Crime Branch police, a top police official said today. Tahir Hussain was arrested by the CCB of Bengaluru police for possessing a country made pistol, the official said.
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Crime Branch sources said he operated in Vijayapura on the border of Maharashtra and Karnataka. The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Bengaluru West division) and the investigating officer in the case M N Anucheth confirmed that the special investigation team (SIT) is going to question him.
Journalist-activist Lankesh, known to be an anti-establishment voice with strident anti-right wing views, was gunned down by unknown assailants in front of her residence here on the night of September 5. The state government formed a 21-member SIT led by inspector general of police B K Singh to investigate the case.
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