PONDA: The investigation into the murders of “atheists and urban Naxalites” Dr Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, M M Kulbargi and Gauri Lankesh are politically motivated, alleged author Dr Amit Thadani during the ongoing 11th annual Hindu Rashtra Convention held at Ramnathi, Ponda.
Dr Thadani said that Hindus have been imprisoned without any concrete proof, charge-sheets have also been filed against them; however, the investigating agencies themselves have claimed that actual accused is not at all the one among those who are imprisoned and charge sheeted; but some other individuals.
In all the above cases, there have been a whole lot of irregularities – changing the accused, changing the weapons, and so on.
Gauri Lankesh was murdered at night and assassins were wearing helmets; yet, police photographed the suspects a number of times. How could the police see the faces in the helmets?, he asked.
In Dr Dabholkar case, it was claimed by the police that they recovered a pistol that was broken in pieces and thrown in the sea; however, what they found on seabed was a single intact pistol. Who then assembled this pistol on the sea bed? In a nutshell, till date, no agency has tried to carry out an unbiased investigation of the case and the motive behind these murders. The sole focus thus far has been on using these murders for political gains.
On the occasion, Dr Thadani released his book ‘The Rationalist Murders’.
In another session, Rahul Kaul, President, of Youth for Panun Kashmir, Pune, alleged that no government is ready to acknowledge the massacre of the Kashmiri Pandits as genocide. As a result, the Kashmir pattern is burning parts of the country where Muslims are in the majority. Hence, Hindus are fleeing from many such places in India.
Prashanth Sambargi, a film producer from Karnataka; Acharya Rajeshwar, national president of Sanyukta Bharat Dharma Sansad, Rajasthan and Santosh Kenchamba, founder president of Rashtra Dharma Sangathan also participated in this session.
