RTI activists murder: CBI searches house of witness

A team of Central Bureau of Investigation conducted searches at the house of an eyewitness in the murder of RTI activist Satish Shetty.

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A team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted searches at the house of an eyewitness in the murder of RTI activist Satish Shetty.

The team conducted seaches the house of Vandana Murhe in Talegaon Dabhade and seized some documents on Monday.

Shetty was murdered near a newspaper stall operated by Murhe on January 13,2010. Our teams spoke to Murhe and seized some documents from her residence today for investigations, said CBI additional superintendent S P Singh.

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The murder was earlier investigated by the Pune rural police,which had arrested six persons in the case,including advocate Vijay Dabhade who was later released on bail. Shettys family claimed that advocate Dhabhade was not behind his murder and demanded a CBI or CID probe. The investigation was then handed over to the CBI. Last week,a CBI team had seized a laptop and hard disc of a computer from Lonavala police station. Shetty,who had busted scams in the district using RTI,had filed complaints at Lonavala police station against two private companies. CBI is probing whether his murder was linked to any of these complaints.

The CBI had also seized a laptop and computers from the office of the local crime branch of Pune rural police for investigation into the case.

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