Slain journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh's sister Kavitha Lankesh on Thursday came out against any move to hand over the probe in the case to the CBI, saying the Special Investigation Team of the Karnataka police had made a lot of progress, arresting 16 suspects.
Kavitha said if the State Government agreed to the CBI probe, she would seek to implead herself in the matter in the Supreme Court and oppose it. Her comments come in the backdrop of the apex court recently favouring CBI probe into the murders of Gauri Lankesh, rationalist MM Kalburgi and social activist Govind Pansare if there was a "common thread" in these incidents which occurred over the last five years.
"The SIT led by IG BK Singh and investigation officer MN Anucheth did a brilliant work by arresting the accused in the case. It filed two charge sheets also. When there is so much headway, it does not make anysense to hand over the case to CBI," she told here. However, Kalburgi's son Sreevijaya said he was having faith in judiciary and whatever it did will be in the best interest of his family. "We will go by whatever judiciary feels good. At the end of the day we want justice in the case," he said. On December 11, a bench of justices UU Lalit and Navin Sinha of the Supreme Court had asked the CBI to inform it by January first week whether it would like to investigate the three other cases also.