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Even as police claim that probe into the August 20 killing of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar was on the right track,no concrete clue in the case seems to have emerged a month after the incident.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rajendera Bhamre,the investigating officer in the murder case,said his teams were in the process of getting vital clues and probe was on the right track. A huge amount of information and data in the case has been collected by police who are now in the process of getting essential clues from the inputs collected from 19 special squads drafted to crack the case, Bhamre said.
The officer,however,was silent on the motive behind the murder supposedly committed by two motorcycle-borne assailants who apparently shadowed the anti-superstition crusader and shot him dead from close range on a city bridge when he was taking a morning walk.
A London lab is processing the blurred CCTV footage to decipher the images of the killer duo supposedly captured by the cameras installed in a building in the vicinity after police technicians here failed to get anything concrete from their examination of the video clip.
The report from abroad was awaited,police said.
Police have so far interrogated about 2,000 history-sheeters in the entire state,including over 1,000 from Pune,in addition to enquiries with about 400 people who are regular morning walkers on the bridge in the heart of the city.
While making no secret of their disappointment with the slow pace of investigations,Dabholkars family has so far refrained from demanding a CBI probe.
We still have faith in Pune Police and do not feel that a stage has come to demand a CBI inquiry, said Mukta,Dabholkars daughter and also an activist of the Andhshraddha Nirmulan Samiti (ANS),the anti-superstition group founded by the slain activist.
The ongoing probe also saw Pune Police swooping on the Goa headquarters of Sanatan Sanstha,an organisation which opposed Dabholkars campaign,and questioning some of its activists.
The enquiries,however,have failed to reveal any information,police said.
Earlier,Pune Police Commissioner Gulabrao Pol had said the culprits had not left any evidence behind.
Foolish to seek CBI probe: Sena
Shiv Sena said Saturday it would be foolish to demand a CBI probe into the murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar.
There is a demand to hand over the probe to CBI or NIA. This is akin to showing distrust in the state police.
… what miracle will CBI or NIA do, an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamana said. Let state police probe…We have full faith in our police, it said,while attacking CM Prithviraj Chavan for seeking to blame right-wing Hindu Sanatan outfit for Dabholkars murder.
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