SIT to investigate into Prakash Theatre blast case

Team Udayavani, Sep 27, 2018, 3:10 PM IST

Bengaluru: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) which is probing into the murder case of senior journalist Gauri Lankesh, will also investigate  into the Belagavi’s Prakash Theatre blast case.

On January 25, 9:30 pm bombs were hurled by some unknown bike-borne miscreants outside the theatre which was screening Padmavat.

It has been alleged that the right wing group which has been behind the murders of rationalists in Karnataka and Maharashtra would be involved in this case as well.

The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), on a tipoff from the Karnataka SIT, had arrested Vaibhav Raut, Sharad Kalaskar and Sudhanva Gondhalekar on August 10 in the Nalasopara arms haul case and had seized huge amounts of weapons and illicit firearms. During the investigation, the ATS, after obtaining information from Kalaskar’s computer, had unearthed the conspiracy to carry out blasts at the two theatres and the hugely popular ‘Sunburn’ music festival in Pune in 2017.