By TNM Staff
Telangana BJP MLA Raja Singh has felicitated the advocates representing the men accused in the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh and rationalist Narendra Dabholkar at an event organised by a Hindutva group called Hindu Janajagruti Samiti. The group is considered to be an offshoot of the Sanatan Sanstha, an extremist Hindutva group.
Raja Singh who had faced 101 cases in Hyderabad, of which 18 were communal in nature, felicitated four advocates at the Vaishvik Hindu Rashtra Mahotsav held in Goa between June 24 and 30.
He felicitated advocates P Krishnamurthy, Umashankar Megundi, Divya Megundi and Avinash Masuti, who are representing the main accused in the Gauri Lankesh murder case.
Gauri was murdered outside her house in Bengaluru on September 5, 2017. The main accused in the case was Amol Kale, a former leader of the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti who according to the police, allegedly hatched the plot to murder Gauri. The Special Investigation Team that was investigating Gauri’s murder found that 18 people were
The Karnataka state spokesperson of the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti posted images of the felicitation on social media.
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