Satish Shetty murder: Bloodstained weapons found at ex-cop's house

Just two days after retired Police Inspector Bhausaheb Andhalkar went public with allegations that investigators had failed to nab advocate Vijay Dabhade who is according to him ldquothe real killerrdquo of RTI activist Satish Shetty lsquoCBI let the real killer get awayrsquo August 13 the Central Bureau of Investigationrsquos CBI case closure report revealed several contradictory detailsAlso read Suspect excop in Satish Shetty murder case alleges CBI let the real killer get awaySatish Shetty had filed a complaint in 2009 implicating IRB officials in a land scam He was stabbed to death in January 2010 File PicThe report revealed that prima facie there was a close nexus between Andhalkar mdash who was the investigating officer in the case originally mdash and the accused officials from the company IRB and its subsidiaries including Virendra Mhaiskar managing director of IRB Infrastructure Developers liaison officer Jayant Dangare and others The CBI cited a list of phone calls made between the policeman and the accused during the threemonth period between Satish Shettyrsquos complaint implicating IRB ina land scam and his subsequent murderRetired policeman Bhausaheb Andhalkar in white is amongst 26 policemen who stand accused in the Satish Shetty murder case File PicAndhalkar on Tuesday had gone on record alleging that once the contents of the CBIrsquos closure report were revealed it would ldquoclear things uprdquo and prove that the agency had not made efforts to investigate the caseBloody weaponThe CBIrsquos report however gives a completely different account ldquoDuring the search from the residence of Andhalkar one koyta sickle was recovered and seized by the CBI According to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory CFSL New Delhi blood was detected on the koyta from Andhalkarrsquos house as well as on another koyta and sword seized from the residence of one Kishor Behade one of the accusedMiddayrsquos report on August 13However the blood grouping in all the three did not give any reactionrdquo the report states Responding to the CBIrsquos observations Andhalkar told midday that all phone calls between him and the IRB officials were part of an inquiry he had conducted into the complaint made by the deceased Shetty ldquoIf we are investigating a certain case then obviously frequent calls are going to be made between us and the concernedrdquo Andhalkar claimedHe also rubbished the CBIrsquos suggestions that a bloodstained sickle was found in his residence during search operations He added ldquoI was the incharge of the Crime Branch of Pune rural police It is foolish to think that I will hide the weapon in my house after allegedly committing a murder Who will buy this argument from the CBIrdquoldquoDuring investigations around 500 people from Talegaon Dabhade and adjoining areas were examined The people interviewed included prisoners who were released on parole and furlough in December 2009 as well as members from different gangs operating in Pune and Talegaon Dabhaderdquo stated the investigating officer Additional Superintendent of Police CBIACB S P Singh in the reportHis statement added that another accused Santosh Chintaman Chandolkar alias Luba was subjected to a polygraph test during which 15 questions were put to him ldquoDeceptive response was found in his answers regarding his involvement in the murder of Satish Shetty including one question as to whether he had killed Shetty on orders from Andhalkarrdquo Singh statedThe CBI is currently investigating the October 2009 land dispute at Ozarde village off the PuneMumbai ExpresswayThe case was handed over to the agency on August 8 and the CBI had announced earlier that if the land case reveals more clues to Shettyrsquos death the murder case could be reopened