Mumbai: Right-wing organization Sanatan Sanstha on Friday said the verdict in the rationalist Dr Narendra Dabholkar murder case, in which the court convicted two accused and acquitted three others, is a defeat for those who had "plotted Hindu terrorism". .
A special court for UAPA cases in Pune on Friday convicted two of Dabholkar's attackers - Sachin Andure and Sharad Kalaskar - and sentenced them to life imprisonment for his murder, but three others - ENT surgeon D Virendrasinh Tawde, Sanjeev Punalekar and Vikram Bhave – acquitted for lack of reason. Of evidence.
The organization has been alleging that the investigating agency CBI tried to implicate its members in the Dabholkar murder case and falsely implicated its "sadhaks" (followers).
Addressing a press conference in Pune, Sanatan Sanstha spokesperson Abha Vartak said, "This decision is a defeat for those who had conspired to commit Hind terrorism." It is also a defeat for the communist ecosystem, in which Dabholkar's daughter Mukta and son Hamid had taken inappropriate steps."
He claimed, “Overall, this decision makes it clear that the investigation into the case was questionable.The court has removed UAPA sections from the case, which indicates that the case was designed to prove Hindu terrorism in the country."
Dr. Dabholkar was murdered on 20 August 2013 at 7.20 am and just one and a half hour later, the then Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan, while talking to media persons, said that this murder might have been done by pro-Hindutva people. And thus misled the investigation, Vartak alleged.
"It was not appropriate for a person to make such comments despite holding a responsible post, but he had to create a narrative of Hindu terrorism in this country, under which he blamed Hindutva organisations," the organization official said.
“The court gave its verdict after 11 years, but all these years we had to face insults and humiliation,” he said.,
Vartak said, "Some innocent people were implicated in the case... There is a gang of progressive people; there is a nexus of urban Naxalites and communists who defame Hindutva organizations and this verdict is an answer to them."
He alleged that pressure was put on the investigating agency.
"ENT surgeon Virendrasinh Tawde's life was ruined as he spent eight years behind bars before being acquitted by the court," he said, adding that the same had happened with Bhave and Punalekar.
He said, “During all those years, we cooperated with the investigating agency. The investigating agency interrogated more than 1,60 seekers of the organisation, bank accounts were also checked but they found nothing.,
Vartak said, "After Tawde's arrest, we had to face insults and insults due to the name of Sanatan Sanstha being mentioned, but we remained silent for 11 years. Our image was damaged, but this decision has erased the stain." "
Sunil Ghanwat, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh coordinator of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, another right-wing organisation, called it an example of how a Hindu organization was humiliated.
A special court for UAPA cases in Pune on Friday convicted two of Dabholkar's attackers - Sachin Andure and Sharad Kalaskar - and sentenced them to life imprisonment for his murder, but three others - ENT surgeon D Virendrasinh Tawde, Sanjeev Punalekar and Vikram Bhave – acquitted for lack of reason. Of evidence.
The organization has been alleging that the investigating agency CBI tried to implicate its members in the Dabholkar murder case and falsely implicated its "sadhaks" (followers).
Addressing a press conference in Pune, Sanatan Sanstha spokesperson Abha Vartak said, "This decision is a defeat for those who had conspired to commit Hind terrorism." It is also a defeat for the communist ecosystem, in which Dabholkar's daughter Mukta and son Hamid had taken inappropriate steps."
He claimed, “Overall, this decision makes it clear that the investigation into the case was questionable.The court has removed UAPA sections from the case, which indicates that the case was designed to prove Hindu terrorism in the country."
Dr. Dabholkar was murdered on 20 August 2013 at 7.20 am and just one and a half hour later, the then Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan, while talking to media persons, said that this murder might have been done by pro-Hindutva people. And thus misled the investigation, Vartak alleged.
"It was not appropriate for a person to make such comments despite holding a responsible post, but he had to create a narrative of Hindu terrorism in this country, under which he blamed Hindutva organisations," the organization official said.
“The court gave its verdict after 11 years, but all these years we had to face insults and humiliation,” he said.,
Vartak said, "Some innocent people were implicated in the case... There is a gang of progressive people; there is a nexus of urban Naxalites and communists who defame Hindutva organizations and this verdict is an answer to them."
He alleged that pressure was put on the investigating agency.
"ENT surgeon Virendrasinh Tawde's life was ruined as he spent eight years behind bars before being acquitted by the court," he said, adding that the same had happened with Bhave and Punalekar.
He said, “During all those years, we cooperated with the investigating agency. The investigating agency interrogated more than 1,60 seekers of the organisation, bank accounts were also checked but they found nothing.,
Vartak said, "After Tawde's arrest, we had to face insults and insults due to the name of Sanatan Sanstha being mentioned, but we remained silent for 11 years. Our image was damaged, but this decision has erased the stain." "
Sunil Ghanwat, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh coordinator of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, another right-wing organisation, called it an example of how a Hindu organization was humiliated.
