The Bombay Excessive Court docket on Wednesday granted bail to 6 accused within the 2015 case associated to the homicide of CPI chief Govind Pansare, citing their lengthy incarceration.
The accused who have been granted the aid are Sachin Andure, Vasudev Suryavanshi, Bharat Kurne, Amit Degvekar, Amit Baddi and Ganesh Miskin, who have been arrested in 2018 and 2019.
The court docket mentioned the bail plea of one other accused, Virendrasingh Tawade, could be individually heard in the end.
A single-judge bench of Justice Anil S Kilor concluded listening to on the bail pleas on December 12, 2024, and reserved the decision.
Dr Megha Pansare, daughter-in-law of the deceased activist, had filed intervention functions opposing their bail pleas.
Pansare, an activist and Communist Social gathering of India, and his spouse have been shot whereas on a morning stroll on February 16, 2015, in Kolhapur. Whereas his spouse survived the assault, the CPI chief died at a Mumbai hospital 4 days later.
On January 2, one other bench of the excessive court docket disposed of a plea filed by Megha Pansare and the CPI chief’s daughter Smita Pansare, who sought a court-monitored investigation into his killing. The court docket mentioned the investigation didn’t require additional monitoring by it and directed the Kolhapur court docket to expedite the trial.
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In August 2022, the court docket transferred the investigation to the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) from the Particular Investigation Crew of the Felony Investigation Division (CID) of the police.
The ATS had recognized 12 accused, of which prices have been framed in opposition to 10–the seven bail candidates in addition to Sameer Gaikwad, Amol Kale and Sharad Kalaskar–for homicide, try to homicide and prison conspiracy underneath the Indian Penal Code and provisions of the Arms Act.
The Kolhapur court docket has declared alleged shooters Vinay Pawar and Sarang Akolkar as absconding within the case.
The accused are linked to a radical right-wing outfit known as Sanatan Sanstha and its associates, in keeping with the ATS.
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Tawade, Kalaskar and Andure have been additionally named within the 2013 homicide of anti-superstition activist Dr Narendra Dabholkar. Many of the accused within the Pansare homicide case are additionally charged within the 2015 homicide of Kannada scholar M M Kalburgi and the 2017 homicide of journalist Gauri Lankesh.
