Bengaluru: Although Police have officially said that Belagere gave the Supari for his colleague Sunil’s murder for ‘personal reasons’, others believe there is an outsider angle to it.

On July 20, Belagere posted a cryptic message on his Facebook wall which roughly translates to “When the husband is away at war, will the wife be considered chaste if she sits on somebody’s lap?”

Heggaravalli says he is surprised that Belagere wanted him eliminated. He used to work in ‘Hai Bangalore’ as its chief reporter but quit due to ‘some misunderstanding’ with Belagere and worked in some other media. “After Gauri Lankesh’s murder, Belagere called me and asked to come back to work. So I joined the tabloid again,” he said.

“Belagere tried to contact me for no reason earlier also and tried to get the location of my mobile phone,” said Sunil, adding that some days back, a “courier guy” had come to his house with a parcel of books from an unknown sender.

Now the Police have learnt that the “courier guy” was none other than Shashidhar Ramachandra Mundawadagi. A senior Police officer said, apart from the statement by Mundawadagi, they had a cache of electronic evidence, including call records linking Mundawadagi with Belagere.