Journalist Gauri Lankesh was murdered outside her Bengaluru home in September last year.
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KT Naveen Kumar's arrest comes 6 months after Gauri Lankesh's murder
He was taken into questioning by SIT a week ago
Gauri Lankesh was shot dead outside her home on September 5 last year
Naveen Kumar, in his late thirties, is from Mandya district in Karnataka. He was caught at the Bengaluru city bus stand by the state police's central crime branch on February 18 for allegedly being in illegal possession of a weapon and ammunition.

KT Naveen Kumar was caught by the Karnataka central crime branch on last month
Gauri Lankesh, 55, a critic of right-wing ideology and a fierce advocate of secularism, edited Gauri Lankesh Patrike, a weekly newspaper.
Her death was seen as part of a series of unsolved killings of rationalists that included Professor MM Kalburgi, who was shot outside his home in Dharwad in north Karnataka in 2015, and also the murders of Govind Pansare and Narendra Dabholkar from Maharashtra.
On Wednesday, Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy had said that the murder probe would "end soon". The minister has made similar statements earlier as well.
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