Bengaluru sources have reported that senior journalist Gauri Lankesh was killed at her residence in Bengaluru on September 5 late night. Meanwhile according to reports, Gauri was followed by people in a car after she left her office in Basavanagudi at 7.30 pm. When she was entering her house, three to four people attacked her with guns. Three bullets hit her on the neck and chest. She collapsed on the floor and breathed her last.
According to sources Gauri Lankesh was the editor of weekly Kannada tabloid
magazine Lankesh Patrike, columnist in newspapers, and a panelist on TV
channels besides being an activist. Gauri was the elder daughter of P Lankesh,
a man who brought in a new brand of Kannada journalism.
Meanwhile Gauri had ideological differences with right wing brigade and was considered as Leftist. Last year, she was convicted in a defamation case filed by MP Prahlad Joshi, who had objected to a report against BJP leaders. Moreover Chief Minister of Karnataka, Kerala, West Bengal and several former Union Ministers and several senior politicians has condemned the killing of Gauri Lankesh.
