PTI, MUMBAI: Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan said today the “real masterminds” behind the killings of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar and three other prominent persons were being protected and some people were being made scapegoats and named as conspirators by probe agencies.
The former Maharashtra chief minister questioned the timing of arrests made recently in connection with the killing of Dabholkar.
Chavan said in 2011, when he was chief minister and Congress-led UPA was in power at the Centre, he had sought a ban on right-wing organisation Sanatan Sanstha as it was a “divisive and violent” outfit.
Chavan said he is still in favour of banning the Goa-headquartered outfit, which has been linked to the killings of rationalists and scholars, including Dabholkar, since 2013.
Sanatan Sanstha has denied any link with these killings. On Saturday, the CBI said it has arrested the main shooter in the Dabholkar case.
The anti-superstition activist was shot dead on August 20, 2013 in Pune. After Dabholkar, another rationalist Govind Pansare was shot dead in Kolhapur in February 2015.
