Two individuals had been at this time sentenced to life imprisonment by a Pune courtroom for the 2013 homicide of activist Narendra Dabholkar. The courtroom acquitted three different accused within the case.
Studying out the order in a packed courtroom, Further Periods Decide (Particular Court docket) P P Jadhav mentioned that the prosecution had proved the costs of homicide and conspiracy in opposition to Sachin Andure and Sharad Kalaskar and so they have been awarded life imprisonment and a wonderful of Rs 5 lakh.
In keeping with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Andure and Kalaskar had shot Dabholkar.
The courtroom acquitted accused ENT surgeon Tawde, Sanjeev Punalekar and Vikram Bhave for need of proof.
Narendra Dabholkar, who headed the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, was shot lifeless in Pune on August 20, 2013, allegedly by the members of a fringe group.
Dabholkar’s homicide in Pune had been adopted by the taking pictures of Govind Pansare in February 2015 and MM Kalburgi in Kolhapur in August the identical 12 months. Gauri Lankesh was shot lifeless exterior her dwelling in Bengaluru in September 2017.
Pune police initially probed the case. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) took over the probe in 2014 following a Bombay Excessive Court docket, order and arrested Dr Virendrasinh Tawade, an ENT surgeon linked to the Hindu right-wing organisation Sanatan Sanstha, in June 2016.
In keeping with the prosecution, Tawade was one of many masterminds of the homicide.
Sanatan Sanstha, to which Tawade and among the different accused had been linked, was against the work carried out by Dabholkar’s organisation, the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (committee for eradication of superstition, Maharashtra), it claimed.