Mukta, Hamid Dabholkar, Megha Pansare get ‘X’ category protection

NP NEWS NETWORK 

Pune 

Based on information from Karnataka police about the perceived threat to late Dr. Narendra Dabholkar’s children Mukta and Hamid Dabholkar, and Megha Panesar, daughter-in-law of late Govind Pansare, Maharashtra police has accorded them ‘X’ category security.

Police officials said that a diary was recovered from accused arrested in the murder case of Gauri Lankesh, which mentioned these three as possible targets of a right-wing Hindu organization.
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Accordingly, the state intelligence department (SID) of Maharashtra Police decided to provide them round the clock security. Now each one of them has been given a highly trained policeman from the SID’s special protection unit(SPU).

Officials said that Karnataka police team, probing the Gauri Lankesh case, had recovered a diary which allegedly contained a ‘hit-list’ of prominent persons – progressives and secular thinkers — who were vocal critics of radical Hindutva ideas.

The diary is said to belong to Amol Kale, one of the suspects in Lankesh’s murder, who was picked up by the Karnataka police from Pimpri-Chinchwad in May. Kale’s diary had theatre luminary Girish Karnad, noted writer-politician B T Lalitha Naik and pontiff Veerabhadra Channamalla Swamy of Nidumamidi Mutt among others as prime targets.

After this, Special IG Krishna Prakash of the SID had informed Pansare, Mukta and Hamid about the threat perception. And since mid-July, a bodyguard from the SPU has been assigned to each of them to provide round-the-clock security.