Same pistol used to kill Gauri, Kalburgi: Report

The bullets in both cases “have been fired through a single country made pistol chambered for 7.65 mm caliber pistol cartridges,” a source said quoting the report.

The report also pointed out that the scratches formed by the firing pin on the bullets tallied among themselves. The forensic report submitted to the Special Investigation Team probing the killing

of Lankesh is part of the first charge sheet filed recently by the SIT naming KT Naveen Kumar as an accused. However, Kumar, who was recently arrested, in a statement to the SIT has claimed he had failed to arrange for bullets to execute the plot to kill Lankesh.

The charge sheet is the first official indication by any government agency that link the 2015 and 2017 murders. Kalburgi (77) was shot dead in his house on August 30, 2015, in Dharwad and 55-year old Lankesh on September 5, 2017 here.