A year later, no headway in Kalburgi case
The CID is now hoping that they might get some leads from Virendra Tawade.
BENGALURU: It's going to be a year since the assassination of Dr M.M. Kalburgi on August 30 in his house in Dharwad and there has been no significant headway in the case by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is investigating the case despite the agency putting in its “maximum effort and resources” in the “complex” investigation, said an official source.
The CID is now hoping that they might get some leads from Virendra Tawade, the ENT surgeon from Panvel in Navi Mumbai, who was arrested in June by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the 2013 murder of Pune-based rationalist Narendra Dabholkar.
“The CID has applied for Tawade’s custody, but it may take some time as the Special Investigation Team, Kolhapur had earlier applied to the court for his custody in the 2015 Govind Pansare murder case,” the officer added. Tawade is a member of Sanatan Sanstha (SS) and the chief coordinator of the Hindu Janjagruti Samiti (HJS), which are under the scanner in all the three sensational murder cases.
The CBI, SIT Maharashtra and CID Karnataka are probing Dabholkar, Pansare and Kalburgi murder cases and have been sharing information on need to know basis because of striking similarities in the three target killings.
The CBI on court permission had sought the opinion of Scotland Yard in the ballistic reports of the murders since there were differences in the analysis by Forensic Science Laboratories in Bengaluru and Mumbai.