Thirty one-year-old Sandeep Shinde from Pune has been living in Goa for the past four years
The Pune police have detained a person, who is a well-known name in Goa and associated with a Hindu radical group, in connection with the sensitive murder case of anti-superstition crusader Dr Narendra Dabholkar on Wednesday night.
Sandeep Shinde (31), who hails from Pune and has been living in Goa for the past four years, was picked up the police. In 2009, Shinde was questioned for the Margao blast case in Goa.
However, the top brass claim to have yet to zero in on the suspect’s role in the case. They said that the detained person could be released after being interrogated by senior officers.
“He has been picked up on suspicion and not arrested,” joint commissioner of police (law and order) Sanjeev Kumar Singhal said.
According to sources, Shinde is a full-time sadhak at Sanatan Sanstha and lives at the organisation’s Ramnathi Ashram in Ponda, Goa. He was among the 70 people from the organisation who were earlier questioned by the police.
A seven-member team led by assistant police inspector Geeta Bagwade from detection branch of Faraskhana police station, Pune city police, reached the ashram at 4.30 pm and questioned the disciples for about an hour before taking Shinde to Ponda police station.
Shinde was later taken into custody and brought to Pune.
The team is expected to reach the city late Wednesday night.
Ramnathi Ashram, located about 30 km from Panji in North Goa’s Ponda, is the headquarters of Sanatan Sanstha. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had earlier charge sheeted some members of the Sanstha for carrying out blasts in Goa as well as several parts of Maharashtra over the past few years.
A Pune police officer said, “We had sent our teams to Goa and were working on a particular lead for the past couple of days. We picked this person on suspicion and will question him in detail.”
The said Hindu outfit was on the radar of the state government following Dabholkar’s daylight murder.
Getting details of number plate makers
Pune police top brass have asked all police station incharges to collect information regarding number plate makers in their respective areas and provide the report to crime branch sleuths. An additional commissioner of police told dna, “We suspect that the killers might have used a fake number plate. Hence, we have asked officers to collect details whether the registration number (7756) was made by someone in the recent past in the city.”
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