Kalaburgi case: Karnataka CID team to go to Maharashtra

Bengaluru: Home Minister Dr G Prameshwar has said that a CID police team would be leaving to Maharashtra for questioning Vijayendra Tavade, who is also a suspect in murder of noted rationalist Prof Kalaburgi.

After holding meeting with a group of writers on Tuesday, Dr Parameshwar told reporters that so far only the Maharashtra police were questioning Tavade and the State team had not yet got a chance to question him.

Terming the murder as calculated, planned execution, which was making investigating officers difficult to crack the case, Dr Parameshwar said that ideology played a major role behind the motive. The CID had formed the largest team in its history, involving 27 officers, two SPs, one IGP and one ADGP.

Reiterating the suspicion that the murderers of Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare in Maharashtra may be the same, Dr Parameshwar said that one of the weapon used in Pansare murder appears to be same used to kill Dr Kalaburgi.

“We are taking help of CBI and sharing information with them. There is similarity in cartridges used in Pansare and Kalaburgi murder cases, which was proved in Ballistic report. The CBI has sent it to Scotland Yard police for their opinion. We are not yet sure what report they got,” he said.

When asked why it was taking so long, Dr Parameshwar said the CID team was not leaving anything to chance. For example, on the day of murder, about 27,000 students had come down to Dharawad to write examination.

The officers have analysed all the telephone available in the vicinity and that took a lot of time, he said. Answering another question, Dr Parameshwar said the government was ready to extend security for writers if they were facing any threats.