The CBI, while demanding four more days of police custody, argued that they need to scrutinise all the data on the hard disc found from Tawde’s Panvel flat during a raid
Dr Virendra Tawde
Pune: The Central Bureau of Investigation yesterday produced Dr Virendra Tawde, one of the key accused in Dr Narendra Dabholkar murder case, for the third time in front of the judicial magistrate V B Gulve Patil and demanded extra four days of police custody, which the court declined.
Dr Virendra Tawde
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in its argument claimed that they are in possession of a hard disc recovered from Tawde’s Panvel flat in the June 1 raid that contains 2 TB full of Sanatan Sanstha literature. The same was recovered from the ashram in Miraj, which Tawde used to head.
In the remand hearing, CBI argued that certain portions in the two books "Kshatradharma Sadhana" and "Spirituality", written by Sanstha founder Dr Jayant Balaji Atavale have inflammatory content.
"Chapter number 11 of Kshatradharma Sadhana titled as ‘Spiritual practise for destroying Evil Devils’ says that to kill one’s enemy, there are three steps. First step is 5 per cent of physical training, the second step is an united front by all Sanstha members and the last step mentions that if one is not able to kill the enemy, chant the name of God loudly and let the bullet kill the evil person eventually," said B P Raju, CBI’s public prosecutor, adding that page number 60 in the book titled ‘Spirituality’ criticises Dr Dabolkar, his work on Andashraddha Nirmuloon Samiti (ANiS) and also CPI Leader Govind Pansare, who was killed in February last year.
The public prosecutor further said that this literature might be used to brainwash the ones involved in Dabholkar murder and also in other cases.
"We suspect there is a link between the offence and Sanstha literature. During the course of investigation, it was found that Sanstha has around 119 bank accounts that were being handled by Sarang Akolkar, an absconding accused in the 2009 Goa blast case and others like Vinay Pawar, Rudra Patil and his relative Malgonda Patil (main accused in Margao blast case)," said Raju, adding that Akolkar used to disguise and meet his parents in Pune house and Tawde was seen in the period from September to January in 2014-15 visiting Kolhapur, which he had denied initially but later claimed that he went there for his dental treatment.
CBI is also suspecting the 46-year-old ENT specialist Tawde’s role in Pansare and Dr M M Kurburgi’s murders. "Tawde is notorious and is misleading us. He finally said on Sunday, after being grilled for 11 days that his black motorcycle (which might be used for all the murders) was given to a fellow Sanstha member in 1995 and that he does not remember the vehicle number and neither is he aware of the RTO documents. We also need to probe the two cheques that were in the name of Malgonda and some 169 mobile handsets that were used," said Raju as a reason for demanding the extension of Tawde.
Defence lawyers Sanjeev Punawalekar, D R Shinde, Neeta Dhawade, Sushilkumar Pise and Chandrakant Bhosale objected to the CBI demand and argued, "The CBI was given names of two gun dealers, who could be involved in Dabholkar’s murder but they remained tight-lipped about it. For getting the bike details from the RTO Tawde’s police custody is not required."
The defence lawyers demanding judicial custody took strong objection when the literature was being spoken about.
"CBI is portraying a false image about Sanstha literature and bank accounts. The literature was in existence since the 1990s and cannot be connected to Dabholkar’s murder since many people have it."
On August 20, 2013 two bike-borne assailants fired four rounds at Dr Dabolkar who sustained one-bullet injuries on his forehead and three on chest.
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