Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare

India has signed a treaty with 121 countries for mutual legal assistance, including the UK. As per the procedure, the UK Home Office was approached by their Indian counterparts to request their intervention to permit the Scotland Yard to carry out the ballistic study in the murder cases of rationalists Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare and MM Kalburgi. This intervention was required as there were some difference in the findings of FSL, Kalina and FSL, Bengaluru, said a source privy to the case.