PUNE: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday moved an application in a sessions court here seeking 90 days extension for filing a supplementary chargesheet in the
Narendra Dabholkar murder case
on the grounds that it has invoked charges under Section 15 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) against the arrested accused. The UAPA section refers to terrorist act.
A CBI official told TOI, "We have filed the application in the special court seeking 90 days time for filing the supplementary chargesheet under the UAPA. This is because the currently available 90 days time under the
Indian Penal Code
lapses on November 18. We have also intimated a magestrial court about the invoking of the UAPA provision. The special court will hear our application in due course."
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Narendra Dabholkar
was shot dead by two men on Vitthal Ramji Shinde bridge near Omkareshwar temple on the morning of August 20, 2013.
The CBI had arrested Panvel-based ENT surgeon and Sanatan Sanstha saadhak Virendrasinh Tawde on June 10, 2016 for conspiracy to kill Dabholkar. In a chargesheet filed against him on September 6, the CBI then named Sarang Akolkar and Vinay Pawar as the two absconding shooters in the case.
The probe, however, took a turn following the murder journalist-turned-activist Gauri Lankesh at Bengaluru in Karnataka on September 5, 2017 and the Nalasopara arms haul case in Maharahstra in July this year.
The Karnataka SIT interrogated Amol Kale, an accused in the Lankesh murder case and their probe led the Maharashtra ATS to the Nalasopara arms haul. The ATS then arrested Vaibhav Raut, Sudhanva Gondhalekar and Sharad Kalaskar in the arms haul case. Their interrogation led the CBI to the arrest of Sachin Andure from Aurangabad on August 18 in the Dabholkar murder case.
The CBI later told a Pune court that Andure and Kalaskar were the two shooters who fired at Dabholkar. Kalaskar's custody in the Dabholkar case was secured on August 26. Later, the CBI also arrested Vaibhav Raut, Amol Kale and Rajesh Bangera in the Dabholkar case. Kale, Bangera and Raut are also accused in the Lankesh murder case.
The CBI has to now file a supplementary chargesheet against Andure, Kalaskar, Raut, Kale and Bangera for which it has sought 90 days additional time under UAPA.
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