'The Satish Shetty murder case is an important one. His family members are unhappy with the investigation conducted by the Pune police,' said Patil.
State home minister RR Patil said on Tuesday that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will be investigating the murder of Pune-based social activist Satish Shetty.
“The Satish Shetty murder case is an important one. His family members are unhappy with the investigation conducted by the Pune police. They want the case to be probed by a higher authority. I assert that the police had been doing their job well. Still, I will request the CBI to take over the reins of investigation and review the police performance,” Patil said in the legislative council.
Sandeep Shetty, brother of the slain activist, filed an affidavit in the Bombay high court last week, alleging the role of a top businessman in his brother’s murder in January. He accused the Pune police of not handling the probe properly, and demanded that the case be handed over to the CBI.
Before Patil made the announcement on Tuesday, minister of state for home Ramesh Bagwe told the house that the police had arrested seven suspects. “Weapons have been seized from the house of one Shyam Dabhade,” he said.
Replying to a question by the NCP’s Gurunath Kulkarni, Bagwe said that Vijay Dabhade was the main conspirator in Shetty’s murder.
Shetty, who had exposed several scams through RTI, was killed on January 12 at his native place, Talegaon Dabhade in Pune district. His brother, in his affidavit to the high court, alleged that Shetty had started getting threats after he exposed a scam in an 1800-acre land deal involving Virendra Mhaiskar, chairman and managing director of IRB Infrastructure Developers Limited, and Nitin Sable. Shetty had registered a complaint with the police, but no action was taken, the affidavit added.
Mhaiskar, who was named the 51st richest man in India by the Forbes magazine in 2009, said last week, “I have given my statement. Transactions have been made in accordance to the law, and everything is on record.”
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