Six months after anti-superstition crusader Dr Narendra Dabholkar was shot dead, the city police commissioner, incredibly, passed the buck for not being able to nab the killers on to the public.

Not our fault: Police Commissioner Gulabrao Pol. Pic/Mohan Patil

Blaming citizens and witnesses for non-cooperation, Commissioner Gulabrao Pol said that many people provided misleading information during the investigation. “In such complicated crimes, citizens do not cooperate and witnesses don’t come forward,” he stated.