New Delhi, Aug 18 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Friday asked the CBI whether there was any common thread in the murders of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, CPI leader Govind Pansare, activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh and scholar M M Kalburgi.
I, once an adversary to Pansare in court, am often asked what made me pursue his case. The Comrade's fair and rational approach had led to a relationship of trust between us. Amidst various investigative goof-ups, the legal battle to secure justice continues.
File photo of activists Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare.
The Bombay High Court on Friday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Maharashtra Crime Investigation Department to state clearly when their inquiries into the murders of activists Govind Pansare and Narendra Dabholkar would finish, reported PTI.
The Maharashtra CID is conducting an inquiry into the killing of rationalist and Communist Party of India leader Govind Pansare in 2015, and the CBI is investigating the 2013 murder of anti-superstition activist Dabholkar.
The High Court was hearing petitions filed by the relatives of Dabholkar and Pansare seeking a court monitoring of the two investigations. The petitions were not taken up for over a year, according to