FIRA: the investigation agencies did not reach the main culprit and mastermind. The investigative agencies have failed to gather evidences regarding subsequent master mind Dr. Virendersinh Tawde, Adv. Sanjeev Punalekar and Vikram Bhave. The system has succumbed to political pressure and that is why they are acquitted. In the future, FIRA will fight for our say in the people's court.
The investigation agencies have not yet reached the culprit and main mastermind of the murder series. Until then, the lives of many intellectuals as well as the activists of the rationalist movements are at risk
In the year 2013, Dr. Narendra Dabholkar was murdered, the then police did not take the murder case seriously, so the
investigation by the Pune police went astray. Then on 16 February 2015, Com. Govind Pansare was shot in the same
manner in Kolhapur. He died on 20 February 2015. On August 30, 2015, Prof M M Kalburgi and on September 5, 2017,
journalist Gauri Lankesh was murdered in the same manner. Had the investigation of Dabholkar murder case been
completed immediately and the killers were punished, the next three murders of rationalists would have been avoided.
Narendra Dabholkar murder: Pune Court convicts two, acquits three https://www.barandbench.com/news/narendra-dabholkar-murder-pune-court-convicts-two-acquits-three
Dabholkar Case: Court Pulls up Maharashtra Police, CBI for Shoddy Investigation https://thewire.in/law/dabholkar-case-court-pulls-up-maharashtra-police-cbi-for-shoddy-investigation Sukanya Shantha
the special CBI judge Prabhakar P. Jadhav, while acquitting the trio, categorically mentions that the acquittal was not because they didn’t play a role but because the investigating agency – first, the Maharashtra police and then the CBI, failed to do their job. The court passed the verdict on May 10 and the judgment copy was made available a day later, on May 11.
The special court criticised the investigating agency and the state authorities for procedural lapses in obtaining appropriate sanction orders for prosecution of the accused under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. In the absence of these sanctions, the prosecution failed to prove that Dabholkar’s killing was an act of terror, a crucial aspect not just in this case but also in the killings of other rationalists and activists that followed.... Sanathan Sanstha, a far-right organisation implicated in many terror-related activities. is yet to be declared a terror outfit by the Ministry of Home Affairs.