New Delhi, March 2 (Reporter) The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to Mohan Nayak, an accused in the murder of Journalist Gauri Lankesh, on a petition filed by Karnataka government challenging the High Court order granting him bail. Nayak is a key accused in the September 5, 2017, Gauri Lankesh murder case and allegedly provided logistical support for the killing. A bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma asked Nayak’s counsel to file a response and directed the state government counsel to serve a copy upon him. The Apex Court had earlier in January also issued a similar notice to the accused on a petition by Kavitha Lankesh, sister of the deceased. The Karnataka government had last month filed a plea against the high court’s bail order in the Supreme Court. The Karnataka HC had on December 7, 2023, granted bail to Nayak on the grounds of the delay in Trial. Nayak was arrested in July 2018 by a Karnataka special investigation team (SIT) and has been under trial since July 2022. He is allegedly the key person behind Gauri Lankesh’s murder. As per the chargesheet, Nayak had rented a house in the Thagachaguppe village near the Kumbalgodu area of west Bengaluru which was used as a hideout by the shooters before executing the killing. Nayak’s phone number was also identified as the one that was used to communicate with the house owner to rent the house in August 2017 on the pretext of running an Ayurvedic clinic and the subsequent decision to give up the house soon after the murder. The court fixed the next date for hearing the matter on April 9...////...