As it happened: Right-wing critic, senior journalist Gauri Lankesh shot dead in Bengaluru; CID to investigate

Senior journalist Gauri Lankesh shot dead by unidentified men in Bengaluru.

FP Staff|Sep 06, 2017, 01:31:38 IST

Senior journalist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead at her residence in Rajarajeshwari Nagar in Bengaluru on Tuesday evening, reports said.Times Now reported that assailants pumped three bullets into Gauri who had apprehended threat to her life. The News Minute further stated that an unidentified man shot her when she was getting out of her car to open the gate of her house.The report also quotes DG RK Dutta saying,"We got the information just now. She was returning home. Her home is in Ideal Home Layout in Rajarajeshwari Nagar. She got down from her car and she was opening the gate when she was shot. The details are sketchy, and we are yet to know who has done it.The bullets killed her on the spot, reports said.However, it would be too early to comment on it as a report from India Today said that four men entered her house and attacked her.Gauri, a well-known critic of the Right wing and Hindutva politics, was the editor of weekly tabloid magazine Gauri Lankesh Patrike. Apart from this, she was also a columnist for various newspapers and an activist.Assailants pumped three bullets into Gauri who had apprehended threat to her life, according to media reports. The News Minute further stated that an unidentified man shot her when she was getting out of her car to open the gate of her house. The shots killed her on the spot, reports said.

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