The two accused in the Gauri Lankesh murder case, Amit Baddi and Ganesh Miskin, have accused the police of custodial torture. Following this, a Bengaluru court has sent the duo for a medical examination at Victoria Hospital. The court has also put them under judicial custody.
Amit and Ganesh were arrested from Hubli on July 22 and were produced before the third Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) court, which had sent them to police custody till August 6.
Apart from these two and Rajesh (50), who was arrested from Madikeri district of Karnataka on July 23, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) had arrested seven suspects in connection with the murder case.
Mohan Nayak, Parshuram Waghmare, K. T. Naveen Kumar alias Hotte Manja, Amol Kale, Manohar Edve, Sujeeth Kumar alias Praveen and Amit Degvekar were arrested in the case.
Gauri Lankesh was shot dead outside her Bengaluru residence on September 5, 2017.
