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This is an archive article published on October 4, 2015
Probe confirms country-made pistol used in Kalburgi murder
Evidence to indicate this emerged from the analysis of bullet injuries on the writer’s head.
Bengaluru | October 4, 2015 01:35 AM IST
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Forensic and post-mortem analysis of the August 30 murder of Kannada scholar and rationalist M M Kalburgi has established that the 7.65 mm pistol used to shoot him was — as initially suspected — a country-made gun.
File Photo of Former Vice-Chancellor of Hampi University, MM Kalburgi who was shot dead at his Kalyan Nagar residence by unidentified gunmen, in Dharwad on Sunday. (Source: PTI)
Evidence to indicate this emerged from the analysis of bullet injuries on the writer’s head. Although two empty cartridges were found at Kalburgi’s residence after the shooting, doctors and forensic experts were piqued by the fact that there was only one bullet entry wound on the head. They, however, found that two bullets were lodged in his head.
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Investigators now believe that when the gun was first fired, the bullet jammed, forcing the attacker to cock the gun again to fire it. This caused what is known as a “tandem effect” — two bullets being fired at the same time.
“This would not have happened if the attackers had access to a sophisticated pistol,” sources in the Karnataka CID said.
Writers protest
The delay in finding Kalburgi’s killers has triggered protests in the literary fraternity in Karnataka. Six writers, who received Kannada Sahitya Parishat awards in 2011, returned their awards to the parishat Saturday to protest against the slow probe in the case.
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