Investigating agencies told Bombay High Court on Friday that they found some commonalities in the way rationalists Govind Pansare and Narendra Dabholkar were murdered and that they will soon start a country wide search to look for the pistols used for the murder. A division bench of Justices SC Dharmadhikari and GS Patel was hearing a bunch of petitions filed by members of the Pansare and Dabholkar families. The Central Bureau of Investigation’s special investigation team (CBI SIT) is investigating the Dabholkar murder and the State Crime Investigation Department (CID) is probing the Pansare murder. To this Mr. Mundargi said, “yes to some extent commonality is established between the two crimes.”The court then remarked, “we feel like there is some spark missing in this case [Pansare]. Pansare was shot on February 16, 2015 near his house in Kolhapur in western Maharashtra.

Source: The Hindu June 14, 2019 11:55 UTC