CBI

Sanatan Sanstha

Gauri Lankesh

Gauri Lankesh murder case: Gauri case has turned into quite a spectacle in trial court The real reason behind the request, say SIT officials, is delaying tactic; the accused want to prolong the trial by whatever means necessary and get a favourable order, they maintain. ​

Narendra Dabholkar

Govind Pansare

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By Abhishek Sharan & Binoy ValsanThedocument was filed in a Pune court on Nov 12, two weeks before Karnataka SIT filed an additional charge-sheet saying allegedmembers killedThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) report submitted to a Pune court earlier this month said Goa-headquartered Sanatan Santha was “involved” in the murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, who was gunned down outside her house in Bangalore in September last year.Mirror accessed the report, dated November 12, in which the CBI made a sensational disclosure that Sanatan Sanstha had code-named Lankesh as “Amma”, and she was number two on the organisation’s “list” that had 37 eminent people from various walks of life who the organisation considered as opposing the beliefs and practices of Sanatan Sanstha and its sister organisation, the Hindu Jan Jagruti Samiti.Yesterday, the Karnataka Police’s SIT filed an additional charge-sheet running into 9,235 pages in the Gauri Lankesh murder case, naming Pune-based Amol Kale and alleged shooter Parashuram Waghmare as the two main perpetrators of the crime. Both are alleged members of Sanatan Sanstha. The SIT has not directly naming the outfit, but on Friday, when it presented the chargesheet before the Karnataka Control of Organised Crime Act special court, it included a series of material evidence directly linking Sanatan Sanstha to Lankesh’s murder.The CBI, probing rationalist’s murder, the Maharashtra CID, investigating the murder of Communist leader, and the Karnataka Police probing murders of Lankesh and rationalist MM Kalburgi have said a common organisation was behind the four murders. In its report to a Pune court in connection with the Dabholkar murder case, the CBI said that Sanatan Sanstha had targeted those it considered as “anti-Hindu”.“The documents seized in the Gauri Lankesh murder case from one accused (Amol Kale), being investigated by SIT Karnataka, confirms that Sanatan Sanstha/Hindu Janjagruti Samiti is involved in the murder of Gauri Lankesh (code named Amma). The said organisations have targeted as many as 37 eminent social persons from various walks of life, chosen from various states/UTs who are considered as opposing the beliefs/practices of Sanatan Sanstha/HJS. Gauri Lankesh who was at serial number two in the list seized from an accused was eliminated by members of the above-named organisations,” the report said.The CBI said the Sanatan Sanstha/HJS spokespersons “targeted the CBI Mumbai’s superintendent of police in various media discussions as ‘anti-Hindu, ‘durjan, ‘dharam drohi’, and ‘rakshas’ after the arrest of Virendra Sinh Tawde, accused in the Dabholkar case.”