Fourth arrest made in murders of Dabholkar, Pansare, Kalburgi and Gauri Lankesh
Mumbai : In a major breakthrough, the Maharashtra ATS on Sunday arrested Srikanth Pangarkar, 40, from Jalna in a crude bomb case making it the fourth arrest in the case.
Sources in the Karnataka SIT said Pangarkar is linked to all four murder cases of Dr Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, Kalburgi and Gauri Lankesh.
Pangarkar is also a former Shiv Sena corporator from Jalna. Sources said his arrest is a big catch and could lead to many more arrest.
The Maharashtra ATS had last week arrested three persons, Vaibhav Raut and Sharad Kalaskar from Nalasopara while Sudhanva Gondhalekar from Pune. A massive quantity of explosives and firearms were recovered from them. Several bombs, bomb making equipment and firearms were seized including a bike and a car The ATS said the accused were planning something very big.
Cased on interrogations conducted on these three accused, Sachin Andure was picked up by the ATS and handed over to CBI as he was the sharp shooter in the Narendra Dabholkar murder case. Andure was produced in a CBI court in Pune today and remanded to custody.
Karnataka SIT had shared info with Maharashtra ATS. The accused is one of the masterminds in all the mentioned the murder cases. The ATS had also recovered two guns which were used in the murders of all four - Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, Kalburgi and Gauri Lankesh.
Srikanth Pangarkar was the one who started an underground nameless organisation to assassinate rationalists. The accused would talk in code language and never revealed each other's names.
The accused will be produced before court today.
courtesy : indiatoday.in
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Catholic Bishops' body slams Bhagwat's remarks
New Delhi: The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India on Thursday slammed RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for his reported remark that Pranab Mukherjee, when he was President, had said tribals would turn "anti-national" if there is no "ghar wapsi"Catholic Bishops.'
In a statement issued here, CBCI, a body of Catholic Bishops, referred to reports which said Bhagwat, at an event on Monday, claimed that Mukherjee, while he was President had appreciated ghar wapsi and told him that had it not been for the Sangh's work on reconversion, a section of Adivasis would have turned "anti-national".The CBCI called the report "shocking".
"Fabricated personal conversation being attributed to a former president of India and its posthumous publication with the vested interest of an organization with questionable credibility raises a grave issue of national importance," the CBCI claimed.
"Is it not the violent ghar wapsi program of VHP and other similar organizations, curtailing the exercise of freedom of conscience of economically deprived tribals, the real anti-national activity?" it asked.
'Ghar wapsi' is a term used by the RSS and affiliated organisations to refer to reconversion of Muslims and Christians to Hinduism, based on the belief that they were originally Hindus before converting to other religions.
The CBCI also questioned why Bhagwat did not speak about it while Mukherjee was alive.
"We, the 2.3 percent of Indian citizens who are Christians feel extremely hurt by such manipulated and motivated propaganda unleashed," it said.
In a post on X following the statement issued by CBCI, Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien said, "Speak up. This is a start!"
"Bishops body have issued a statement condemning remarks made by Dr Mohan Bhagwat and RSS for defaming the Christian community," he said.
O'Brien added that they should ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi more questions, including why Christmas Day has been turned into "Good Governance Day".
The TMC leader, in a blogpost earlier this month, had said "hard questions" must be asked to the government with regards to the Christian community, including why the FCRA has been 'weaponised', and why has Manipur been 'ignored'.
