The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today carried out searches in Panvel near Mumbai in Raigad district in connection with the murder of rationalist and anti-superstition crusader Narendra Dabholkar.
According to CBI sources, the searches were conducted at the residence of one Virendra Singh Tawde in Panvel.
The searches were also conducted at the Pune residence of Sarang Akolkar, believed to be a Sanatan Sanstha activist whose name had reportedly figured in the Goa blasts case of 2009.
Dabholkar was shot dead by two unidentified persons near Balgandharva auditorium in Pune while he was on a morning walk on 20 August, 2013. The assailants had reportedly fled on a two-wheeler.
The Bombay High Court had transferred the probe of the case to CBI on May 9, 2014 on a PIL filed by former journalist Ketan Tirodkar on the plea that there was no headway several months after the killing of Dabholkar.
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