SR Singh also told the court that he had questioned psychiatrist and Sanatan Sanstha founder Dr Jayant Balaji Athawale in February 2016 in connection to the murder probe, but nothing incriminating came to light.
Anti-superstition activist and founder of Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, Dabholkar was shot dead by two bike-borne assailants in Pune on August 20, 2013.
Rationalist and anti-superstition activist Dabholkar was shot dead by two bike-borne assailants on the VR Shinde bridge in Pune on the morning of August 20, 2013.
It also claimed Tawade and Akolkar had a meeting with Sadvilkar in 2013. Tawade, it further added, wanted to manufacture weapons with Sadvilkar's help, and “Akolkar had, for this purpose, brought samples of a country-made pistol and a country-made revolver of high quality".
During his deposition on Tuesday, Singh who retired from the CBI as superintendent in 2022, told the court about the sequence of events up to the arrest of Dr Virendrasing Tawade, an ENT surgeon and Sanatan Sanstha member, who is the prime accused in the case.