Former Jalna Shiv Sena corporator Shrikant Pangarkar's name has now cropped up in the diary of one of the arrested accused in a murder case being probed by the Karnataka police; a report regarding the same has been sent to the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on September 1. While ATS is not disclosing which accused in what case, all indicators point to the murder case of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh.

According to ATS, Pangarkar was present in Karnataka for a while from August 14, 2017, before Lankesh was shot dead on September 5, 2017. In that time, he was in touch with the others accused of murdering her.