The Free Press Journal

Karnad on the hit list

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Eminent film and theatre personalit­y Girish Karnad and several litterateu­rs and rationalis­ts were on the hit list of those suspected of killing journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, officials said on Wednesday.

Besides Karnad, a recipient of the Jnanpith Award, the highest honour in literature, politician­litterateu­r B T Lalitha Naik, pontiff Veerabhadr­a Channamall­a Swamy of Nidumamidi Mutt and rationalis­t C S Dwarakanat­h also figured in the list, sources in the SIT probing the Lankesh murder case said.

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