Bengaluru, Nov. 11 -- Former IPS officer Bhaskar Rao has launched a sharp attack on Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge, questioning his remarks linking the RSS to the murders of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, scholar M M Kalburgi and journalist Gauri Lankesh, as well as his alleged circulation of a manipulated AI-generated image connecting the organisation to an ammunition-smuggling case.

In a strongly worded letter addressed to Kharge on Wednesday, Rao said the minister's reported statement, "Sanghwalon ne maara unko", directly attributing the murders to Sangh members, was irresponsible and amounted to making sweeping allegations without respecting the distinction between political claims, investigative findings and judicial conclusi...