ExShiv Sena corporator held for Dabholkar murder in Maha

A former Shiv Sena corporator has been detained in connection with the killing of anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar in Maharashtra’s Jalna district, Central Bureau of Investigation sources said on Sunday.

Shrikant Pangarkar, a former member of the Jalna Municipal Corporation, was detained last night by the CBI after interrogation of Sachin Prakasrao Andure, the alleged main shooter in the Dabholkar murder case, they said.

Andure, a resident of Aurangabad in Central Maharashtra, was arrested in Pune last evening, said a CBI spokesperson yesterday. Pangarkar, aged around 40, was taken into custody after Andure told the CBI that he was with him at the time of Dabholkar’s murder, the sources said. The former corporator was allegedly riding pillion on the motorcycle driven by Andure, they said.

Dabholkar, 67, was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne assailants on August 20, 2013, when he was on a morning walk near his home in Pune.

Andure, who works as a salesman in a garment shop in the Nirala Bazaar area of Aurangabad, is believed to be one of the shooters who fired at Dabholkar, the CBI spokesperson had said yesterday.

According to CBI, Andure, one of the two assailants who shot at and killed Dabholkar, received“shooting training” at various places in Maharashtra and Karnataka.

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