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The deputy manager at the Kozhikode railway station says there are 12 trains stranded on the tracks along the nearly 200-km distance between Kozhikode and Aluva in the Ernakulam district and that there is no guarantee the trains will reach their destinations.

The KCOCA law has been invoked citing the involvement of several of the accused in the Lankesh case in several cases of communal crimes in Karnataka where chargesheets have been filed — which is a primary mandate of the law.

The SIT is viewing Gondhalekar as a person of interest because he was closely associated with Amol Kale, 37, a former HJS convenor in Pune, who has been identified as the head of operations of a covert Hindutva group that is believed to have executed the Lankesh murder.

Among these 22 youths was the man who allegedly shot at and killed Lankesh at the door of her Bengaluru home on September 5, 2017, police sources said.

Two of the men arrested by Maharashtra ATS are allegedly closely associated with the Sanatan Sanstha and Hindu Janajagruti Samiti.

Bharat Kurne alias Tomatar is the twelfth person to be arrested in the case out of the 13 persons named so far for allegedly executing and planning Gauri Lankesh's murder.

Hailing from Karwar in coastal Karnataka, Rodriguez worked as a chef for Sodexo, a French company that runs kitchens at US military camps in Afghanistan and UN facilities.

The finding that some of Waghmare’s trainers were directly involved in the Kalburgi murder adds to forensic findings that a common group of assassins was involved in the two shootings.

"With the intent of murdering Lankesh, the two accused persons stayed at several places in Bengaluru,’’ the SIT stated in a court application, seeking custody of the two men on July 23.

Following arrest of two key persons in the Gauri Lankesh murder— Amol Kale, 37, and Sujeet Kumar, 38 — this year, the SIT found 20 mobile phones in a bag carried by Kale and 22 phones in shelves in the kitchen of a house in Udupi where Sujeet lived.

Suresh, a building contractor, came on the SIT’s radar soon after the arrest of Amol Kale (37) and three others linked to the Sanatan Sanstha and HJS in May.

All the other persons based in Karnataka named in the diary, including theatre legend Girish Karnad whose name was No. 1 on the Lankesh list, have been provided state security.

Bangera, the owner of two licensed guns, trained several persons linked to Hindutva groups in the firing of guns, the SPP said on behalf of the SIT.

With the two arrests on Sunday, nine people have so far been arrested in the case. All nine arrested, including the alleged shooter, Parashuram Waghmare, 26, from Vijayapura district of Karnataka, are alleged to have been part of the core group of Hindutva group.

Bengaluru Police investigators are piecing together an elaborate profile of the five Colombians who were arrested last week for committing at least five big-ticket burglaries in the homes of wealthy residents in the city’s south.

The Shiroor Math seer was embroiled in a controversy with the seers of the Ashta Maths at the time of his death over a television clip that emerged in March.

Lakshmivara Theertha headed the Shiroor Matha, one of the eight mathas or the Ashta Mathas linked to the Udupi Sri Krishna temple, and was at loggerheads with the seers of the other mathas.

In New Delhi to meet Central ministers and state MPs, Kumaraswamy on Tuesday stressed that he did not refer to the Congress party in any way in his July 14 speech.

The police investigations have revealed that members of the gang have a history of crime in cities in South America, the United States and Mexico.