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Was Gauri Lankesh killed to save religion? Accused regrets murder

Gauri Lankesh’s murderers were arrested by the officials,  including the last 6th one. But do they regret killing the renowned journalist?

Parashuram Waghmore, the 26-year-old picked up by the Karnataka police in the Gauri Lankesh murder case, has told the special investigation team (SIT) that he killed the journalist-activist to “save his religion”, according to a media report quoting SIT sources. Waghmore, who was nabbed from north Karnataka’s Vijayapura district a few days ago, has claimed that he was unaware of who he was killing when he shot Lankesh on the night of September 5 in Bengaluru’s R R Nagar, SIT sources said. “I was told in May 2017 I had to kill someone to save my religion. I agreed. I didn’t know who the victim was. Now I feel that I should have not killed the woman,” Waghmore allegedly told the SIT.

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“I was first taken to a house. After two hours, a biker took me to show the house of the person I was to kill. The next day, the biker took me to another room in Bengaluru. Another man in the room took me to the R R Nagar house again on a bike and dropped me back. I was again taken to Gauri’s house in the evening, by the same biker who had taken me the previous day. I was told that I had to finish the job that day. But Gauri had returned from work by then and was inside her house,” SIT sources quoted Waghmore as confessing to them.

Waghmare, the sixth suspect arrested in connection with Lankesh’s killing, was her assassin, the SIT said on Friday, as reported by news agency PTI. “Waghmare shot Lankesh and the forensic report has confirmed that (rationalists) Govind Pansare, M M Kalburgi and Lankesh were murdered with the same weapon,” a senior SIT officer was quoted as telling the media.

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