CBI team in Pune, pieces together ‘missing’ links

Dabholkar was shot dead by two unidentified bike-borne suspects at Omkareshwar bridge on August 20 last year.

The special crime branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is now probing the murder of anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar, has started putting together the missing links in the investigation done earlier by the Pune police.

Dabholkar was shot dead by two unidentified bike-borne suspects at Omkareshwar bridge on August 20 last year. In May, the Bombay High Court transferred the probe to the CBI from the Pune police. The HC had given the order after a public interest litigation (PIL) was filed by former journalist Ketan Tirodkar.

A CBI team from Mumbai has been camping in Pune for the past one week. A Pune police crime branch officer said, “The CBI has now started looking into what they think are the missing links in the probe done by us. They are talking to various teams which probed the case. They have also asked for some objects that were collected during primary investigation. They have come up with some minute details that we missed out.”

On January 20, five months after the murder, the police arrested two alleged arms dealers, Manish Nagori (24) and Vikas Khandelwal (22), in connection with the murder. Khandelwal is now out on bail.

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