At 3:27 pm on 5 September, a lone biker with a black helmet slowly approaches from the right of activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh’s bungalow at Ideal Homes Layout in Bengaluru’s Rajarajeshwari Nagar neighbourhood off Mysore Road. He is dressed in a white shirt (not in a dark jacket as erroneously reported earlier) and dark, baggy terri-cotton trousers.

The biker turns his gaze towards Gauri’s house to his left, goes forward a metre or so, and turns the bike around slowly before going back the same route he followed.

He returns at 7:15 pm and follows through the same motion, this time with the headlight of the bike turned on. But instead of turning back, he drives on.