Narendra Dabholkar murder: Key witness refutes Sanatan charges, says he told...
Narendra Dabholkar was shot in Pune in 2013. An important witness in the Narendra Dabholkar murder case, who had approached the police naming Virendra Tawade of Sanatan Sanstha as the suspect, himself...
View ArticlePansare family seeks CBI probe, says SIT not doing its job with seriousness
Govind Pansare The family of anti-superstition activist Govind Pansare, who was murdered on February 20, 2015 in Kolhapur, has urged Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to hand over the case to the CBI as...
View ArticleDabholkar murder case: Retired cop Manohar Kadam denies any links with...
Narendra Dabholkar was shot in Pune in 2013. RETIRED Police Sub-Inspector (PSI) Manohar Kadam, who is being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Narendra Dabholkar murder case,...
View ArticleCBI connects Gaikwad, Vinay Pawar through phone talk
Kolhapur: Vinay Pawar, wanted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Narendra Dabholkar murder case, is a close friend of Sameer Gaikwad, arrested for the murder of Govind Pansare,...
View Article13 close to Tawade under 'shadow-watch'
Kolhapur: The city police have kept 13 people under a "shadow watch" since the arrest of Virendrasinh Tawade for...
View Article13 aides 'close' to Tawade under cops' shadow-watch
Kolhapur: The city police have kept 13 people under a "shadow watch" since the arrest of Virendrasinh Tawade for allegedly plotting rationalist Narendra Dabholkar's murder. Police said these people...
View ArticleCBI checks mobile phones for calls before killings
Pune: The CBI has prepared a detailed list of 169 cellphone users who were directly or indirectly in contact with each other before the murders of slain rationalist Narendra Dabholkar and veteran...
View ArticleSanstha man conspirator in Pansare case too, says CBI
PUNE: CBI officials on Monday told TOI that Sanatan Sanstha member Virendrasinh Tawade, arrested in the rationalist Narendra Dabholkar murder case, was also involved in the conspiracy behind the...
View ArticleTawade conspirator in Pansare murder too: CBI
Pune: Sanatan Sanstha member Virendrasinh Tawade, who was arrested earlier this month for rationalist Narendra Dabholkar's murder, was allegedly involved in Communist Party of India functionary Govind...
View ArticleTawade custody for city cops post-June 23
Kolhapur: The city police on Monday said they will take custody of Virendrasinh Tawade after June 23, when the Govind Pansare murder case comes up for hearing in the Bombay high court (HC). The police...
View ArticleTawade: From a doctor to a 'sadhak'
PUNE/KOLHAPUR: Rationalist Narendra Dhabholkar's murder accused Virendrasinh Tawade was a practicing doctor who graduated from a top medical college in Mumbai before the attraction to right-wing...
View ArticleE-mail trail led to arrest in Dabholkar case
PUNE: Ten days of questioning following searches at Sanatan Sanstha member Dr Virendrasinh Tawade's house in Panvel on June 1and "digital leads" secured by sleuths provided the CBI with enough evidence...
View ArticleDabholkar murder suspect Tawade may come under NIA lens for Margao blast
Virendra Tawade Sanatan Sanstha activist Virendra Tawade, who was arrested last week by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, may...
View ArticleTawde’s name also came up in Kalburgi probe
Tawade is an activist of the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, a splinter group of the pro-Hindutva outfit Sanatan Sanstha. The name of Virendra Tawade, the doctor arrested by the CBI in Panvel on Friday in...
View ArticleAt Tawade’s Panvel home, CBI finds list of ‘anti-Hindu rakshasas’
Pune: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday told a Pune court that it has recovered a list of names of people referred to as "danavas" and "rakshasas" (demons), from Sanatan Sanstha...
View ArticleNarendra Dabholkar murder accused prepared ground in Kolhapur: Son
Narendra Dabholkar. (File Photo) VIRENDRA Tawade, the doctor arrested by the CBI in Panvel, near Mumbai, on Friday in connection with the 2013 murder of activist Narendra Dabholkar, had apparently...
View ArticleDabholkar murder: Tawde’s CBI custody extended till June 20
Virendra Tawade, arrested by CBI for his alleged involvement in rationalist and author Dabholkar’s murder case, was produced in a Pune Court on June 11. The CBI custody of Virendra Tawde, an accused in...
View ArticleHand over case to CBI, demands Pansare's family
Kolhapur: The relatives of slain rationalist Govind Pansare on Thursday demanded chief minister Devendra Fadnavis to hand over his murder case to the CBI. The central agency is already investigating...
View ArticleGoa bombing suspects rang Tawade before & after blast
MUMBAI: Anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar could have probably been saved if agencies investigating the 2009 Goa bomb blasts had paid attention to the call details of the two key suspects in...
View ArticlePansare kin to petition HC for case transfer to CBI
KOLHAPUR: The family of slain rationalist Govind Pansare will put up an application before the Bombay high court this week demanding that the murder case be transferred from the special investigation...
View ArticleCBI connects Dabholkar and Pansare killers via phone talk
KOLHAPUR: Vinay Pawar, wanted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Narendra Dabholkar murder case, is a close friend of Sameer Gaikwad, arrested for the murder of Govind Pansare,...
View ArticlePansare kin to seek CBI inquiry, may file petition in HC
KOLHAPUR: The family of slain Communist leader Govind Pansare plans put up an application before the Bombay high court this week, demanding that the murder case be transferred from the special...
View ArticleAgencies focus on Kolhapur
Kolhapur: Virendrasinh Tawade's arrest in the murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar has put the investigating agencies' focus back on right-wing activists in Kolhapur. In the last two days, the CBI...
View ArticlePansare, Dabholkar kin object to Rijiju's statement
KOLHAPUR: Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju's statement that there is no common link between the killings of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, veteran CPI leader Govind Pansare and Kannada...
View ArticleCBI, SIT hold joint meeting with Karnataka CID
Kolhapur: Officials of three investigating agencies independently probing murders of rationalists Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare and M M Kalburgi held a joint meeting in Pune that ran for four...
View ArticlePansare murder case: Bombay HC extends stay on framing of charges against...
The report has been sought to find out if there was any link between the killings of Pansare, and rationalists Narendra Dabholkar and M M Kalburgi. The Bombay High Court on Friday extended the stay on...
View ArticleLeft-wing organisations question delay in Kolhapur cops taking custody of Tawade
Kolhapur: Members of the Shahid Govind Pansare Samata Sangharsh Samiti have questioned the delay of the Kolhapur police in taking custody of Virendra Tawade. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)...
View ArticleLeft-wing organisations question delay in cops taking custody of Tawade
KOLHAPUR: Members of the Shahid Govind Pansare Samata Sangharsh Samiti have questioned the delay of the Kolhapur police in taking custody of Virendra Tawade. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)...
View ArticlePansare's daughter accuses SIT of delaying action against killers
KOLHAPUR: Smita Pansare, the daughter of rationalist Govind Pansare, on Monday said that the special investigation team (SIT) of Maharashtra police is delaying in taking action against right wing...
View ArticleSIT to take Tawade's custody on Saturday
KOLHAPUR: The SIT has said it will take Virendrasinh Tawade in custody on Saturday after the hearing of the Pansare murder case in the Bombay high court. "We will take his custody two days after...
View ArticleKalburgi family urged to seek High Court monitored probe
KOLHAPUR: The family members of Kannada scholar M M Kalburgi should seek a court-monitored investigation in the case, said relatives of slain rationalists Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare....
View ArticleTawade arrested in Pansare murder case
KOLHAPUR: The Kolhapur police probing the Govind Pansare murder case have arrested Virendrasinh Tawade and on Saturday made him the second suspected accused in the crime. A local court remanded Tawade,...
View ArticleCity police to take over Tawade's custody today
KOLHAPUR: The city police will take custody of Virendra Tawade, who has been arrested for allegedly plotting rationalist Narendra Dabholkar's murder, from Pune's Yerawada jail on Friday. A delegation...
View ArticleCops say Tawade not cooperating
KOLHAPUR: Virendrasinh Tawade, who was arrested on Saturday in connection with the Pansare murder case, is not co-operating with the Kolhapur police. Tawade, an ENT specialist, was named the second...
View ArticleGovind Pansare case hearing deferred to October 25
Kolhapur: The district court hearing the Govind Pansare murder case gas deferred the hearing to October 25 as the hearing of a similar case in the Bombay high court scheduled on October 7 was also...
View ArticleState CID may file chargesheet against Tawade by December 2
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government Crime Investigation Department (CID) on Thursday informed the Bombay high court that it is likely to file a supplementary chargesheet against accused, Virendra...
View ArticleChargesheet against Tawade soon
The special investigating team (SIT) probing the murder of rationalist Govind Pansare will file a chargesheet against the accused, Virendrasinh Tawade, by November-end. SIT chief Sanjeev Kumar was in...
View ArticlePansare murder: Chargesheet against Tawade in 4 days
Kolhapur: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the Govind Pansare murder case will be filing the chargesheet against ENT specialist Virendrasing Tawade in four days. Tawade is the second...
View ArticlePansare murder: Tawade named 2nd accused in addl chargesheet
The special investigation team (SIT) probing the Govind Pansare murder case on Tuesday filed a supple case on Tuesday filed a supplementary chargesheet against Sanatan Sanstha member Virendrasinh...
View ArticleRight wing activist arrested in Pansare murder case
A man allegedly having links with rightwing outfit 'Sanatan Sanstha' was today arrested in connection with the killing of veteran Communist leader and rationalist Govind Pansare in February this year....
View ArticleDabholkar murder case: CBI says Tawade is a key conspirator
Tawade is taken to court on Saturday. Narensdra Vaskar A day after arresting Virendra Tawade, a member of pro-Hindutva outfit Sanatan Sanstha, in connection with the August 2013 murder of...
View ArticleTransition from a doctor to a 'sadhak'
Pune/Kolhapur: From the classrooms of a top medical college in Mumbai and the plush chamber where he practised in Kolhapur, the attraction to right-wing ideologies finally landed Virendrasinh Tawade in...
View ArticleTawade ‘admits’ to hunting for revolver, bullets
Kolhapur: Sanatan Sanstha member Virendrasinh Tawade, who was arrested by the CBI for allegedly plotting rationalist Narendra Dabholkar's murder in August 2013, is said to have admitted to having...
View ArticlePansare: HC asks Kolhapur court to defer framing of charges
In a major relief for the kin of the slain Communist leader Govind Pansare, the Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the Kolhapur sessions court to defer the framing of charges against the prime...
View ArticleCops look for links in killings of Dabholkar, Pansare, Kalburgi
The Maharashtra police are probing a possible link in the sensational murders of rationalist and anti-superstition activist Dr Narendra Dabholkar, Leftist leader and secularist Comrade Govind Pansare...
View ArticleKarnataka Police find arms links in rationalists' murder
Kolhapur: The Karnataka Police have found "striking similarities" in the firearms used in the murders of rationalists Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare and M M Kalburgi. Top sources in Karnataka CID,...
View ArticleA year on, Kalburgi case remains in limbo
Exactly a year has passed since scholar and rationalist M.M. Kalburgi was gunned down by an unidentified assailant, but neither the probe into the case nor the legislation against superstitious...
View ArticleSame bike, weapon used for killing Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare,...
Virendra Tawde, an alleged commander of the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) has been arrested in connection with the murder. THE same motorcycle and weapon were used by assailants in the killing of two...
View ArticleKey witness alleges city police were negligent
Kolhapur: The police officials named by the CBI's key witness in his statement either claim that they do not specifically recall having met him or say that they cannot comment since the matter is...
View ArticleIs Pansare probe transferred to CBI, HC asks state; pulls up CBI on Dabholkar
The Bombay High Court has said it not happy with the progress in Dabholkar-Pansare murder case and has CBI to take guidance from Scotland Yard. Admitting the court is not happy with the progress of the...
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