“Dr Narendra Dabholkar Murder Case: Decoding the court’s judgement”, Organiser, May 18, 2024:
“A narrative has been created in the mainstream media that the murders of social activist Dr Dabholkar in Pune in 2013, Communist politician Govind Pansare in Kolhapur and academic MM Kalburgi in Bangalore in 2015 and journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bangalore in 2017 were part of a larger conspiracy by some Hindu organisations to eliminate “rationalists”.
In fact, all the accused in the cases are Hindu activists. I have been tracking all four investigations and trials closely for the past five years. After a detailed study of primary sources such as the chargesheets filed by the CBI, FIR copies, witness statements and related court judgements, I have published two books on this subject.
Throughout the past four years, I have maintained that the evidence against the people arrested in these cases was flimsy, that there is no proof of any such conspiracy and that the likely outcome would be acquittal…..”
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