Bengaluru, Jul 18: The wife of Kannada scholar Prof. M M Kalburgi, who was assassinated at the doorstep of his home in Dharwad, has identified a man presented in a test identification parade as the person who shot her husband on August 30, 2015.
The man identified by Umadevi Kalburgi on Wednesday is Ganesh Miskin, 27, it is learnt.
He was the same man who was arrested last year by the Karnataka Police as one of the alleged in the Gauri Lankesh case.
Kalaburgi's son, Shreevijay Kalburgi, told Indian Express, "she identified the culprit in the identification parade today. The name of the person who was identified was not disclosed to us."
Till now, all the three charged for the Gauri Lankesh murder, have also been identified as culprits in the Kalburgi murder.
On August 20, 2015, M.M Kalburgi, a Kendriya Sahitya Akademi awardee was murdered on the doorstep of his house in Dharwad.
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