SC rejects pleas seeking cancellation of bail granted to man accused in Gauri Lankesh murder case
The bench noted that the accused was cooperating with the trial court.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected two petitions seeking the cancellation of bail granted to one of the men accused of plotting the assassination of journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh, The Indian Express reported.
A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma dismissed a petition filed by Lankesh’s sister Kavitha Lankesh challenging the bail given to Mohan Nayak, noting that the accused had been cooperating with the trial court.
It also put aside an appeal filed by the Karnataka government on the matter.
Gauri Lankesh, the editor of a periodical named Gauri Lankesh Patrike and a prominent critic of Hindutva groups, was shot dead outside her home in Bengaluru’s Rajarajeshwari Nagar by a group of men on the night of September 5, 2017, as she was returning home from work.
In December 2023, the Karnataka High Court granted bail to Nayak, who had been incarcerated in July 2018, on the grounds of a delay in the completion of his trial.
Kavita Lankesh had then moved the Supreme Court challenging Nayak’s bail.
At the hearing on Tuesday, Senior Advocate Siddharth Luthra, representing the Karnataka government, told the bench that 137 witnesses had been examined by the prosecution in the case, Live Law reported. He added that only 100 witnesses were left to be examined.
The court said that Nayak had cooperated with the trial and had not...
