Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy today hit back at Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for alleging that the Congress government in the state had failed to provide security to journalist Gauri Lankesh, who was shot dead outside her house in Bengaluru. He said Prasad was not acquainted with the facts about the slain journalist and that she never asked for security.

"Whenever she met the chief minister or senior police officials, including the DGP, she never asked for security," he said.

At a press conference in New Delhi, Prasad showed copies of news reports of Lankesh's brother, Indrajit, claiming that she had worked for the surrender of Naxalites and asked as to why the Siddaramaiah government had not provided her security. -- PTI