Hamid Dabholkar, son of slain anti-superstition activist Dr Narendra Dabholkar, on Sunday expressed unhappiness over investigators’ failure to zero in on the murderers of his father, CPI leader Govind Pansare and Kannada scholar M M Kalburgi.
“Why is it so difficult to identify them There are reports in media that these three rationalists were killed by the same set of weapons, (but) even then the investigating agencies were speculating about the motive,” Mr Hamid said, speaking at ‘Mumbai Collective: Celebrating Freedom and Pluralism’, a two-day conclave here.
“All three of them were working to propagate rationalism and constructive criticism of religion,” Mr Hamid said. “They were labelled as traitors of religion by a particular organisation, which has a history of resorting to violence to achieve their agenda,” he added.
“The same organisation had put a red cross on Dabholkar and Pansare’s photographs (on its website). Still, two and a half years later, not a single arrest has been made,” he said.
