The Supreme Court today sought the response of probe agencies NIA and CBI and the governments of Maharashtra and Karnataka on a plea seeking a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the murder of famous author and rationalist M M Kalburgi in 2015.<br/><br/>A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud took note of the petition<br/>filed by Uma Devi Kalburgi, wife of the slain author, and sought the response of the investigative agencies and the two states within six weeks.<br/><br/>Kalburgi's wife, in her petition alleged that no substantial probe has been done so far in the murder case of her husband.<br/><br/>Kalburgi, the former Vice-Chancellor of Hampi University and a well-known scholar and epigraphist, was shot dead at his residence in Kalyan Nagar in Dharwad, Karnataka, on August 30, 2015. He was 77 years old.<br/><br/>Kalburgi was a Sahitya Akademi award-winning writer of old Kannada literature. <br/><br/>He was born in Yaragal village in Vijayapura district of north Karnataka in 1938.