The Supreme Court has issued notice on a petition challenging the Karnataka High Court order, which granted bail to an accused in the murder case of journalist Gauri Lankesh.
The order was passed recently by the Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma on a petition filed by Gauri Lankesh’s younger sister Kavita Lankesh.
The petitioner challenged the Karnataka High Court verdict of December 7, 2023, which granted bail to accused Mohan Nayak on the grounds that he had spent over five years in custody and the trial was not likely to be completed soon
Gauri Lankesh was the editor of Kannada tabloid Lankesh Patrike. She was shot dead outside her house in Bengaluru in 2017.
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