In a special leave petition filed in the Supreme Court last month, Rajani alleges that Patil was the main conspirator in her husband’s murder and he was still free.
Rajani Patil, widow of Jalgaon-based professor and local district congress committee president Vishram Patil, has not yet lost hope for justice. After the Bombay high court gave a clean chit to GN Patil, brother of president Pratibha Patil, in the murder of her husband, Rajani has now approached the Supreme Court.
In a special leave petition filed in the Supreme Court last month, Rajani alleges that Patil was the main conspirator in her husband’s murder and he was still free.
In July, the division bench presided by chief justice Swatanter Kumar had had expressed its satisfaction towards the investigation carried out by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The agency had given a clean chit to Patil and one more suspect Ulhas Patil. Rajani has now asked the Supreme Court to quash the high court’s order.
In her petition, Rajani says that the two men arrested — Liladhar Narkhede and Damodar Lokhande, alleged close aide of Patil — did not have any direct motive to kill her husband.
“We are not saying that these people [Narkhede and Lokhande] are innocent. We are just saying that the main accused are left,” the petition says.
Narkhede and Lokhande were discharged by the Aurangabad bench of the high court in 2006. The Supreme Court had upheld the decision then. However, the duo were rearrested after Rajani’s plea before the Bombay high court that they were close aides of Patil and should be questioned further.
Rajani’s plea also claims that GN Patil and Ulhas Patil had a compelling motive to eliminate her husband. The petition alleges that that the CBI distorted evidence to establish that Lokhande and Narkhede had a strong independent motive to murder the deceased. “The petition will come up for hearing in due course,” said senior counsel Mahesh Jethmalani, advocate for petitioner.
Vishram was found brutally murdered on September 21, 2005. It was alleged that the motive was intra-party rivalry between him and Patil.
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