Pune weeps for Dabholkar, observes shutdown
22 Aug 2013 11:39 PM GMT
Thousands of people in Pune trooped out on the streets on Wednesday to protest the murder a day ago of social reformer and anti-superstition campaigner Narendra Dabholkar. The city observed a near-total spontaneous shutdown.
All major roads and commercial areas wore a deserted look, as Punekars, together with various political parties, social organisations and civil society groups, organised a massive rally at Mahatma Phule Square near Omkareshwar Temple, near where the 69-year-old Dabholkar was shot dead on Tuesday morning, while on a morning walk.
Pune police have yet to make any headway in the murder case, even though eight special teams are working on it. A Mumbai police crime branch team has reached the state’s academic and cultural capital to assist local police in solving the sensational murder case which has left the entire country shocked in its sheer brutality and brazenness.
All major political parties in the city, including the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party, the Shiv Sena, the Bharatiya Janata Party and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, besides scores of social and student organisations, joined in the procession and rally.
At a public rally after the procession, several speakers paid homage to Dabholkar, condemned his cold-blooded killing and demanded action by the police to nab the killers.
A leading campaigner against blind belief and witchcraft, mild-mannered Dabholkar, a social worker and journalist who was trained as a medical doctor, was shot dead by motorcycle borne assailants near the Omkareshwar Temple on Tuesday morning, around 7.30am.
All major roads and commercial areas wore a deserted look, as Punekars, together with various political parties, social organisations and civil society groups, organised a massive rally at Mahatma Phule Square near Omkareshwar Temple, near where the 69-year-old Dabholkar was shot dead on Tuesday morning, while on a morning walk.
Pune police have yet to make any headway in the murder case, even though eight special teams are working on it. A Mumbai police crime branch team has reached the state’s academic and cultural capital to assist local police in solving the sensational murder case which has left the entire country shocked in its sheer brutality and brazenness.
All major political parties in the city, including the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party, the Shiv Sena, the Bharatiya Janata Party and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, besides scores of social and student organisations, joined in the procession and rally.
At a public rally after the procession, several speakers paid homage to Dabholkar, condemned his cold-blooded killing and demanded action by the police to nab the killers.
A leading campaigner against blind belief and witchcraft, mild-mannered Dabholkar, a social worker and journalist who was trained as a medical doctor, was shot dead by motorcycle borne assailants near the Omkareshwar Temple on Tuesday morning, around 7.30am.
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