The Special Investigating Team (SIT) probing the murder of activist Gauri Lankesh on Saturday released sketches of the two main suspects, but showed little indication of having found anything else.
SIT chief BK Singh, said: “Two male suspects have been identifying based on information from our technical team and information from locals. We have prepared a sketch of the suspects.”
“Before committing the crime, the suspects have stayed in the City at least for a week and have done a recce of Gauri’s house. We want the public to help us identified if there had stayed in their area,” Singh said.
Although there are only two suspects but there are three sketches as they have been prepared based on different accounts.
“We don’t know anything about them. We want the public to help us,” Singh. CCTV footage captured shows the suspects with their viser up, and using technology we could get the sketch.
We are still verifying the bike, but we know the make. Both the suspects 25-35 years of age.
“If you look at the sketch in Kalburgi case and this, there is a lot of effort. Each sketch took more than 48 hours. Not computer generated,” Singh said answering a specific question on how even the Kalburgi case had sketches but no arrests.
Professional Angle Eliminated
Singh further said that so far, based on evidence at hand, we have only been able to eliminate only her professional angle-it had nothing to do with her profession.
“All other angle, including personal are still open. Even her life as an activist, for that matter,” Singh said.
There are similarities are there and dissimilarities when we look at the Kalburgi case, nothing can be said conclusively.
“We’ve not asked for the cartridges from the other two murders either,” Singh said.
