According to Hamid Dabholkar, protests were also being held in other states, including Karnataka, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Assam. The CBI has maintained that it was Akolkar and Pawar who shot Dabholkar dead. On Saturday, Hamid and Mukta Dabholkar led a candlelight protest at Shinde Bridge, where the rationalist was murdered. “The case made some progress only after the Bombay high court pulled up the investigators,” Hamid Dabholkar said. He demanded that a special task force be constituted with a dedicated task to nab Akolkar and Pawar.

Source: Mint August 20, 2017 18:22 UTC