The Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti today demanded a ban on right-wing Hindu organisation Sanatan Sanstha, alleging its members were behind the murder of rationalist Narendra Dabolkar.
MANS was founded by Dabholkar. Its state chairman Avinash Patil claimed "similar weapons" were used to kill Dabholkar, CPI leader Govind Pansare and Kannada writer M M Kalburgi and urged for coordination among different agencies probing the cases.
"The Maharashtra government should ban Sanatan Sanstha as its volunteers have been named not only in the Dabholkar murder case, but also in blasts in Goa, Panvel and Thane. Forensic reports also suggest that there is a stark similarity in bullets used for killing the three," he said.
The Dabholkar murder case is being probed by the CBI, while the police of Karnataka and Maharashtra are investigating the murder of Kalburgi and Pansare.
Dabholkar was killed in Pune on August 20, 2013. Sanatan activist Virendra Tawde was last year arrested by the CBI in this regard.
The agency in a charge sheet filed in September last year had also named Sanatan cadres Sarang Akolkar, whose name cropped up in the 2009 Goa blasts, and Vinay Pawar.
Patil said the government should announce a cash reward on Akolkar and Pawar and rued that only one arrest was made in the case in more than three years.
He said that on February 16, MANS and other like-minded organisations will protest at Jantar Mantar here, demanding the arrest of those involved in the murder of the three rationalists.
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