No further court docket docket monitoring of CBI probe into rationalist Narendra Dabholkar’s murder: Bombay HC
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MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday discontinued the court docket docket monitoring into the probe being carried out by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inside the killing of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar in 2013, noting the chargesheet has been filed and the case trial has commenced.
A division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and P D Naik in its order moreover said the CBI’s investigation officer has submitted the probe completion report again to the corporate’s headquarters.
“It is, thus, clear that the investigation of the present crime has already been completed and the trial of it is steadily progressing. As of March 2023, the prosecution had already examined 18 witnesses,” the HC said in its order.
Dabholkar (67), founding father of the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, was shot lifeless by two people, allegedly linked to the unconventional outfit Sanatan Sanstha, whereas he was on a morning stroll in Pune on August 20, 2013.
The extreme court docket docket was monitoring the probe since 2014 when the case was handed over to the CBI for investigation, with the corporate submitting periodical tales to the court docket docket.
The HC said no extra monitoring was required inside the probe and disposed of the petition filed by Narendra Dabholkar’s daughter Mukta Dabholkar looking for for the court docket docket monitoring to proceed.
In January this 12 months, the CBI educated the HC that its probe into the case was full and the investigation officer has despatched a closure report again to its head office for approval.
However, till date the CBI headquarters has not taken any alternative on the report submitted by the investigation officer, the HC well-known.
The CBI, which took over the case from Pune metropolis police in 2014, has to this point chargesheeted 5 accused inside the case.
The trial in the direction of them is on sooner than a courses court docket docket in Pune.
In 2014, the extreme court docket docket transferred the probe into the case to the CBI following a petition filed by social activist Ketan Tirodkar and later by Mukta Dabholkar.
Since then, the HC was monitoring the progress made inside the case.
Mukta Dabholkar’s advocate Abhay Nevagi had argued that the circumstances of 4 killings – of Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, Gauri Lankesh and M M Kalburgi – have been inter-connected and the mastermind behind all these circumstances was not however arrested.
The chargesheets filed in these circumstances arrange that the motive behind the murders was to eradicate positive people or rationalists systematically, Nevagi had argued.
The HC in its order relied on the Supreme Court judgements and well-known that after the chargesheet is submitted inside the right court docket docket, the tactic of court docket docket monitoring the investigation includes an end and it is for that court docket docket to take cognisance of the equivalent and maintain the matter.
Communist chief and rationalist Govind Pansare and his partner Uma Pansare have been shot in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur metropolis on February 15, 2015, whereas on a morning stroll.
Govind Pansare succumbed to his accidents 5 days later whereas his partner survived.
Journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh was shot lifeless on September 5, 2017 open air her house in Bengaluru.
Kannada creator Kalburgi was shot lifeless at his residence in Karnataka’s Dharwad on August 30, 2015.
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday discontinued the court docket docket monitoring into the probe being carried out by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inside the killing of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar in 2013, noting the chargesheet has been filed and the case trial has commenced.
A division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and P D Naik in its order moreover said the CBI’s investigation officer has submitted the probe completion report again to the corporate’s headquarters.
“It is, thus, clear that the investigation of the present crime has already been completed and the trial of it is steadily progressing. As of March 2023, the prosecution had already examined 18 witnesses,” the HC said in its order.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Dabholkar (67), founding father of the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, was shot lifeless by two people, allegedly linked to the unconventional outfit Sanatan Sanstha, whereas he was on a morning stroll in Pune on August 20, 2013.
The extreme court docket docket was monitoring the probe since 2014 when the case was handed over to the CBI for investigation, with the corporate submitting periodical tales to the court docket docket.
The HC said no extra monitoring was required inside the probe and disposed of the petition filed by Narendra Dabholkar’s daughter Mukta Dabholkar looking for for the court docket docket monitoring to proceed.
In January this 12 months, the CBI educated the HC that its probe into the case was full and the investigation officer has despatched a closure report again to its head office for approval.
However, till date the CBI headquarters has not taken any alternative on the report submitted by the investigation officer, the HC well-known.
The CBI, which took over the case from Pune metropolis police in 2014, has to this point chargesheeted 5 accused inside the case.
The trial in the direction of them is on sooner than a courses court docket docket in Pune.
In 2014, the extreme court docket docket transferred the probe into the case to the CBI following a petition filed by social activist Ketan Tirodkar and later by Mukta Dabholkar.
Since then, the HC was monitoring the progress made inside the case.
Mukta Dabholkar’s advocate Abhay Nevagi had argued that the circumstances of 4 killings – of Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, Gauri Lankesh and M M Kalburgi – have been inter-connected and the mastermind behind all these circumstances was not however arrested.
The chargesheets filed in these circumstances arrange that the motive behind the murders was to eradicate positive people or rationalists systematically, Nevagi had argued.
The HC in its order relied on the Supreme Court judgements and well-known that after the chargesheet is submitted inside the right court docket docket, the tactic of court docket docket monitoring the investigation includes an end and it is for that court docket docket to take cognisance of the equivalent and maintain the matter.
Communist chief and rationalist Govind Pansare and his partner Uma Pansare have been shot in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur metropolis on February 15, 2015, whereas on a morning stroll.
Govind Pansare succumbed to his accidents 5 days later whereas his partner survived.
Journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh was shot lifeless on September 5, 2017 open air her house in Bengaluru.
Kannada creator Kalburgi was shot lifeless at his residence in Karnataka’s Dharwad on August 30, 2015.
