Pune Crime Branch has taken into custody two persons from Goa for questioning in connection with the murder of noted rationalist Narendra Dabholkar.
The duo, hiding at a feast venue at Old Goa near here, was detained on 3 December, Goa deputy inspector general of police OP Mishra said on Saturday.
The detention was made at a village housing cluster of churches, where the annual feast of St Francis Xavier is going on. The duo was picked up from a stall, Mishra said.
Both were taken immediately to Pune, where the 68-year old anti-superstition activist was gunned down by unidentified assailants on 20 August.
Pune police have failed to achieve a breakthrough in the case so far and Dabholkar’s family is pushing for a CBI inquiry.
Earlier it was suspected that right-wing outfits were behind the murder of Dabholkar, who waged a relentless campaign for enactment of a strong anti-superstition and black magic law in Maharashtra.