Mumbai, Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Prithvira Chavan has said that she is not happy with the court's verdict in the Dr Narendra Dabholkar murder case and said that right-wing organization Sanatan Sanstha was a "terrorist organisation" which had a role in the murder. . The famous logic has not been explained.
A special court for UAPA cases in Pune on Friday convicted and sentenced two people to life imprisonment and acquitted three in the case. Anti-superstition crusader Dr Dabholkar (67) was shot dead on August 20, 2013, while on a morning walk on a bridge near Omkareshwar temple.
The special court convicted two of Dabholkar's attackers – Sachin Andure and Sharad Kalaskar – and sentenced them to life imprisonment, but acquitted three others – ENT surgeon Dr Virendrasinh Tawde, Sanjeev Punalekar and Vikram Bhave due to lack of evidence."I am not happy with the verdict. What is the role of Sanatan Sanstha and who is the mastermind of the murder, it has not been made clear. Similarly, (it has also not been made clear) whether there is any connection between the murder of Dabholkar and Yes or No." Chavan said on Friday, “The murders of Govind Pansare and Gauri Lankesh.
Chavan said that when he was the chief minister (between November 2010 and September 2014), the then ACS (Home) Umesh Sarangi had recommended banning Sanatan Sanstha under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act based on the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) report. Did.Act (UAPA).
"There is a process for this where all the states are asked about the activities of the concerned organization in their respective areas. Nothing happened for two years after Dabholkar's murder. In 2014, we sent a 1000-page dossier to the Union Home Was." The ministry (is recommending a ban on the organisation),” he said.Chavan said, "The demand to ban Sanatan Sanstha is still pending with the Centre. Sanatan Sanstha is a terrorist organisation."
Incidentally, Sanatan Sanstha spokesperson Abhay Vartak, while addressing a press conference in Pune after the court's verdict in the Dabholkar case, had criticized Chavan.
Dr. Dabholkar was murdered on 20 August 2013 at 7.20 am and within an hour and a half, the then Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, while speaking to media persons, said that the murder might have been carried out by pro-Hindutva people. And thus misled the investigation, Vartak alleged.Dabholkar's murder was followed by the murders of three other rationalists/activists over the next four years: communist leader Govind Pansar (Kolhapur, February 2015), Kannada scholar and writer M.M. Kalburgi (Dharwad August 2015) and journalist Gauri Lankesh (Bengaluru, September 2017). ) ), and I suspected that the criminals in these four cases were connected.
A special court for UAPA cases in Pune on Friday convicted and sentenced two people to life imprisonment and acquitted three in the case. Anti-superstition crusader Dr Dabholkar (67) was shot dead on August 20, 2013, while on a morning walk on a bridge near Omkareshwar temple.
The special court convicted two of Dabholkar's attackers – Sachin Andure and Sharad Kalaskar – and sentenced them to life imprisonment, but acquitted three others – ENT surgeon Dr Virendrasinh Tawde, Sanjeev Punalekar and Vikram Bhave due to lack of evidence."I am not happy with the verdict. What is the role of Sanatan Sanstha and who is the mastermind of the murder, it has not been made clear. Similarly, (it has also not been made clear) whether there is any connection between the murder of Dabholkar and Yes or No." Chavan said on Friday, “The murders of Govind Pansare and Gauri Lankesh.
Chavan said that when he was the chief minister (between November 2010 and September 2014), the then ACS (Home) Umesh Sarangi had recommended banning Sanatan Sanstha under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act based on the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) report. Did.Act (UAPA).
"There is a process for this where all the states are asked about the activities of the concerned organization in their respective areas. Nothing happened for two years after Dabholkar's murder. In 2014, we sent a 1000-page dossier to the Union Home Was." The ministry (is recommending a ban on the organisation),” he said.Chavan said, "The demand to ban Sanatan Sanstha is still pending with the Centre. Sanatan Sanstha is a terrorist organisation."
Incidentally, Sanatan Sanstha spokesperson Abhay Vartak, while addressing a press conference in Pune after the court's verdict in the Dabholkar case, had criticized Chavan.
Dr. Dabholkar was murdered on 20 August 2013 at 7.20 am and within an hour and a half, the then Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, while speaking to media persons, said that the murder might have been carried out by pro-Hindutva people. And thus misled the investigation, Vartak alleged.Dabholkar's murder was followed by the murders of three other rationalists/activists over the next four years: communist leader Govind Pansar (Kolhapur, February 2015), Kannada scholar and writer M.M. Kalburgi (Dharwad August 2015) and journalist Gauri Lankesh (Bengaluru, September 2017). ) ), and I suspected that the criminals in these four cases were connected.
