The Bombay Prime Court docket on Tuesday granted bail to Sachin Andure, convicted within the 2013 homicide case of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar. A bench of Justices Sarang Kotwal and Ranjitsinha Bhonsale additionally suspended the existence sentence passed to Andure via a classes courtroom in 2024. A duplicate of the detailed order was once no longer but to be had.
Andure, who may be dealing with trial in reference to the killing of activist Govind Pansare, can stroll out of prison now as he has secured bail in each the circumstances.
Dabholkar, 67, the founding father of the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, an anti-superstition organisation, was once shot useless via two motorcycle-borne assailants whilst on a morning stroll in Pune on August 20, 2013.
To start with, the case was once probed via the native police, however following a petition filed within the HC via his daughter Mukta Dabholkar, the investigation was once passed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in 2014. The prosecution had claimed that Andure was once one of the crucial shooters.
On Might 10, 2024, a classes courtroom convicted Andure and Sharad Kalaskar for Dabholkar’s homicide, sentencing them to existence in jail. Then again, they had been acquitted of fees beneath the stringent Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and the Palms Act. The courtroom had additionally acquitted Virendra Singh Tawde, Sanjiv Punalekar and Vikram Bhave, bringing up inadequate proof.
Andure had filed an enchantment within the HC difficult the conviction and, in an intervening time software, sought bail and suspension of his existence sentence. The HC allowed this software on Tuesday.
Dabholkar’s daughter Mukta had additionally filed an enchantment sooner than the HC, difficult the acquittals within the case and the exclusion of UAPA fees in opposition to Andure and Kalaskar. She alleged in her plea that the homicide was once a part of a bigger conspiracy via right-wing extremists.
Dabholkar’s homicide was once the primary in a series of an identical killings of 3 different rationalists and activists, together with Govind Pansare in Kolhapur in February 2015, Kannada-language pupil MM Kalburgi in Dharwad in August 2015 and journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru in September 2017.
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