Among the witnesses are a cab driver and a mobile phone mechanic who lived in the building in North Bengaluru where the Gauri Lankesh murder was planned and executed.
The police officer reported finding 18 mobile phones of Lava and Samsung companies on one of the shelves in the kitchen and 15 pouches with SIM cards of operators like Vodafone, Tata Docomo, and Airtel in another shelf during the search operation at Sujit Kumar's house in the Udupi region.