CBI denied custody of Sharad Kalaskar in Dabholkar case

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Mumbai

The sessions court in Mumbai on Wednesday denied custody of Sharad Kalaskar, arrested by ATS for allegedly planning bomb blasts, to CBI which is investigating the murder case of Dr. Narendra Dabholkar.

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The CBI had submitted that Kalaskar’s accomplice Sachin Andure has been arrested in the killing of Dabholkar and is currently in CBI custody. Of the two shooters, Kalaskar is the second shooter, hence his custody is required.

However, as Kalaskar had been already remanded to ATS custody till September 3, the court refused to grant his custody to CBI. After ATS custody is over, then CBI will apply for his custody again.

Dr. Narendra Dabholkar (67), rationalist and founder of Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS), was shot dead on 20 August 2013, by two unidentified gunmen on a bridge near Omkareshwar temple. Andhure is accused of being one of the shooters, while Sharad Kalaskar is the other accused.

On August 19, Andhure was arrested by the Maharashtra ATS which handed him over to CBI. He was later produced in a Pune court and remanded to custody till August 30.

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“During the interrogation of accused Andhure he revealed that one of the arrested accused of Gauri Lankesh case had handed over one 7.65 mm country-made pistol and three bullets to him. Andhure passed them to his brother-in-law Shubham Surale in Aurangabad on August 11 this year. After Andhure was arrested, Surale passed the pistol and bullets to his friend Rohit Rajendra Rege. We conducted the search at Rege’s house in Aurangabad and seized the weapon and the live bullets”, stated CBI investigating officer S R Singh in the remand application last Sunday. After that, the court extended custody of Andhure till August 30.

Gauri Lankesh (55), journalist-turned-activist was shot dead outside her residence in Bengaluru on 5 September 2017.