The Bombay High Court has asked the Maharashtra Govt. to confirm the reports of Govind Pansare's murder case, being transferred to the CBI and also obtain the Scotland Yard report on Pansare, M M Kalburgi and Narendra Dabholkar murders in six weeks.

Pansare’s family told the High Court, that they were informed that the investigation of this murder case has already been handed over to the CBI. However public prosecutor Sandip Sindhe stated that no such decision was taken regarding this case.

Since the information was not confirmed, the court proceeded with the hearing of the public interest litigation, filed by activist Ketan Tirodkar. Meanwhile both CBI, which is investigating the murder of Dabholkar and SIT, that is probing into Pansare's murder, produced their progress reports before the court.

Justice Dharmadhikary commented on the reports, "One word of the dictionary - juvenile is also childish not just child like. This is childish what we have been noticing for the past one month". The High court voiced its displeasure after Shinde informed the court about CBI’s arrest of Virendrasingh Tawade, in connection with the murder of Debholkar.

Dharmadhikar said, "Were you ignorant about this person and the organization to which he is affiliated? It is a shame that officers sought help of family members to find suspects. This needs to end as you will be ruining the investigations if work continues in this fashion,"  He also asked the CBI to get the report from Scotland Yard by speaking to the officers of the Indian high commission in UK. The agencies feel that all three murders are similar in nature and thus ballistic reports and material were sent to Scotland Yard, for their opinion.

By Prakriti Neogi