Dabholkar murder: 2 convicts move HC against life term

Hamid Dabholkar, son of the late activist, has filed an intervention application seeking to be heard in a challenge to the conviction.

Dabholkar, 67, a prominent anti-superstition activist, was shot dead in Pune on August 20, 2013. (File Photo)

Two convicts in the Narendra Dabholkar murder case approached the Bombay High Court challenging the Pune court verdict and sentencing them to life imprisonment.

A division bench led by Justice Revati Mohite-Dere admitted the appeals by the two convicts — Sachin Prakashrao Andure and Sharad Bhausaheb Kalaskar — against the trial court verdict and issued a notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking its response during the hearing to be held in due course.

Hamid Dabholkar, son of the late activist, has filed an intervention application seeking to be heard in a challenge to the conviction.

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Dabholkar, 67, a prominent anti-superstition activist, was shot dead in Pune on August 20, 2013. The Pune police, which initially investigated the murder case, handed over the probe to the CBI in 2014, following a high court order.

The high court began monitoring the probe in August 2015. The trial in the case commenced in September 2021 after charges were framed against all the five accused.

In May, this year, Special Judge P P Jadhav had convicted Andure and Kalaskar for murder.

However, citing lack of evidence, the judge had acquitted three others including the alleged mastermind Dr Virendrasinh Sharadchandra Tawade, lawyer Sanjiv Gajanan Punalekar and activist Vikram Vinay Bhave, all linked to the outfit Sanatan Sanstha.

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