CBI today carried out searches in Panvel near Mumbai in Raigad district in connection with the murder of rationalist and anti-superstition crusader Dr Narendra Dabholkar.<br/><br/>According to CBI sources, the searches were conducted at the residence of one Virendra Singh Tawde in Panvel.<br/><br/>Searches were also conducted at the Pune residence of Sarang Akolkar, believed to be a Sanatan Sanstha activist whose name had reportedly figured in the Goa blasts case of 2009.<br/><br/>Dr Dabholkar was shot dead by two unidentified persons near Balgandharva auditorium in Pune while he was on a morning walk on 20 August, 2013. The assailants had reportedly fled on a two-wheeler.<br/><br/>The Bombay High Court had transferred the probe of the case to CBI on 9 May, 2014 on a PIL filed by former journalist Ketan Tirodkar on the plea that there was no headway several months after the killing of Dr Dabholkar.