IndiaNewsWatchMay 12, 2024

Dabholkar Case: Court Pulls up Maharashtra Police, CBI for Shoddy Investigation

The special court criticised the investigating agencies for lapses in obtaining sanction orders for the prosecution of the accused under UAPA, leading to their failure to prove Dabholkar's killing as an act of terror.

#maharashtra #DabholkarMurder #NarendraDabholkar #VirendrasinhTawade #SanjeevPunalekar #VinayBhave #SanatanSanstha #hindutva #india

https://thewire.in/law/dabholkar-case-court-pulls-up-maharashtra-police-cbi-for-shoddy-investigation

Dabholkar Case: Court Pulls up Maharashtra Police, CBI for Shoddy Investigation

The special court criticised the investigating agencies for lapses in obtaining sanction orders for the prosecution of the accused under UAPA, leading to their failure to prove Dabholkar's killing as an act of terror.

The Wire
IndiaNewsWatchMay 10, 2024

Dabholkar’s shooters convicted, one is also an accused in Gauri Lankesh murder

Dabholkar’s murder in 2013 had set off a chain of targetted killings of rationalists such as Govind Pansare, MM Kalburgi, and Gauri Lankesh.

#NarendraDabholkar #SachinAndure #SharadKalaskar #VirendrasinhTawde #GauriLankesh #GovindPansare #MMKalburgi #SanathanSanstha #hindutva #communalism #india

https://www.thenewsminute.com/news/dabholkars-shooters-convicted-one-is-also-an-accused-in-gauri-lankesh-murder

Dabholkar’s shooters convicted, one is also an accused in Gauri Lankesh murder

More than 10 years after rationalist Narendra Dabholkar was shot dead in August 2013, a special court in Pune on Friday, May 10, convicted two accused and acqui

The News Minute
OhsinApr 22, 2024

A whole decade.

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/pune-special-court-narendra-dabholkar-murder-case-9277420/

#NarendraDabholkar #Andhashraddha

Pune special court to pronounce verdict in Narendra Dabholkar murder case on May 10

Dr Narendra Dabholkar was shot dead by two bike-borne assailants in Pune on August 20, 2013.

The Indian Express
IndiaNewsWatchAug 20, 2023

"I Should Not Allow Myself to be Scared": Narendra Dabholkar on Facing Threats from Religious Organisations

In this extract from the first volume of the translation, titled 'The Case for Reason: Understanding the Anti-superstition Movement', Dabholkar recounts the pressures he faced from religious organisations, such as the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti and Sanatan Sanstha as well as by members of the BJP and Shiv Sena. (From August 2018)

#BookExcerpt #NarendraDabholkar #rationalism #religion #superstitions #atheism #hindutva #SanatanSanstha #BJP #HinduJanajagrutiSamiti #ShivSena #FreeSpeech #persecution #activism #india #books #bookstodon

https://caravanmagazine.in/religion/narendra-dabholkar-pressure-religious-organisations

"I Should Not Allow Myself to be Scared": Narendra Dabholkar on Facing Threats from Religious Organisations

In this excerpt, Dabholkar recounts the pressures he faced from religious organisations, such as the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti and the Sanatan Sanstha.

The Caravan
Indias MuslimsAug 20, 2020

Seven years since the murder of #NarendraDabholkar, CBI's probe is still plodding along. In July 2019, Avinash Patil, the rationalist who succeeded Dabholkar at the helm of his organisation, spoke to Deshmane Akshay about the lack of political will.

https://t.co/cLuVWnnMz0

Manu Sebastian മനുAug 20, 2020
7 years since a man who stood for progressive & rational values was murdered. Unsurprisingly, the investigation in the case has been a farce. Though the man was silenced, his views remain alive, gaining relevance. As it is said, ideas are bullet proof.
#NarendraDabholkar
The FederalMar 9, 2020
A gun was recovered from the #Arabian sea by a special team that investigated murders of #journalist #GauriLankesh and Kanada scholar MM #Kalburgi. The team is now awaiting #forensic reports to ascertain if it was used in the 2 murders. #NarendraDabholkar
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Post gun recovery from sea, cops say Gauri Lankesh, Kalburgi murders linked - The Federal

A special team that investigated murders of both journalist Gauri Lankesh and Kanada scholar MM Kalburgi said they are awaiting for forensic reports on a gun recovered from the Arabian Sea to assure that if it was the same used in two murders.

The FederalMar 5, 2020
“We have found a #pistol after days of #exploration. The ballistics experts will now examine it with the #bullet size/type mentioned in the post mortem report of #NarendraDabholkar,” one of the 2 senior officers who spoke about the investigation said.
https://zcu.io/Zktd
CBI fishes out pistol which could have killed social activist Dabholkar - The Federal

The CBI with the help of Norwegian deep-sea divers has fished out a pistol from the Arabian Sea, which may have been used in the murder of social activist Narendra Dabholkar, who was murdered by miscreants in Pune in August 2013.

CPIM TamilnaduJan 16, 2020
மரணத்தின் சுழல்... #RohithVemula #GovindPansare #NarendraDabholkar #MohammedAkhlaq #MMKalburgi #TabrezAnsari #2002GujaratRiots #GujaratRiots