No CCTV cameras in or around Gauri Lankesh’s office

There are no CCTV cameras in and around the office of ‘Gauri Lankesh Patrike’ in Gandhi Bazaar, Basavanagudi, disappointing the Special Investigation Team (SIT) which is probing into the chilling murder of the 52-year-old journalist-activist.
An SIT team, which visited the area on Thursday, was disappointed that no CCTV cameras were installed in Gauri’s office or other buildings nearby, a member of the SIT told DH. The team wanted to review the CCTV footage to determine whether Gauri’s assailants had tailed her from her office to her house in Rajarajeshwari Nagar where they gunned her down in cold blood. The SIT is now looking at the CCTV footage of major traffic junctions between Gandhi Bazaar and Gauri’s house on Tuesday and days before, he added.
IGP (Intelligence) B K Singh, who heads the SIT, had called a meeting soon after taking charge on Wednesday. All members of the team were summoned the same night and assigned different tasks. The SIT met again around 9 am on Thursday and split into three teams — one team was sent to Gauri’s house, another to her office and the third was tasked with sifting through technical evidence such as Gauri’s call detail record, mobile phone tower data before and after the murder, etc.
When a team visited Gauri’s house around noon to inspect the crime scene, most of her neighbours were not found. But the team managed to talk to some of them and get their statements.
A forensic team collected footprints, fingerprints and other material from the crime spot. It has taken possession of the hard disk of the four CCTV cameras installed at Gauri’s house. Two cameras facing the gate have filmed the murder. This apart, the footage of 37 CCTV cameras has been recovered from neighbouring places. In all, the SIT is reviewing the footage of a staggering 700 cameras installed in the 12-km area between Gauri’s office and her house.
The technical team is examining Gauri’s posts and comments on the social media in the past six months. It is also looking for similarities, if any, in the killings of Prof M M Kalburgi, activist Narendra Dabholkar and senior communist leader Govind Pansare.
‘Street was well-lit’
Meanwhile, Energy Minister D K Shivakumar said that streetlights around Gauri’s house were functional at the time of the murder.
“I had sought a report and it showed that all the streetlights around her house were switched on. Only the lights in her house and compound were not switched on. We are trying to get more details on this,” he said.

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