The Bombay High Court has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation and Maharashtra-Special Investigation Team to complete soon their probes into the killing of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar and communist leader Govind Pansare. It asked the central agency to arrest a suspect within ten days.<br/><br/>The division bench asked the agencies to obtain within eight weeks the reports of forensic science laboratory of Scotland Yard on evidence in the murder cases of Dabholkar, Pansare and scholar M M Kalburgi as it felt that enough time had been lost in obtaining the opinion of a foreign lab.<br/>The bench headed by Justice S C Dharmadhikari said that if the investigations do not conclude fast, it might give an impression to the people at large that you do not want to arrest certain people hence the agency should complete probe in a reasonable time-frame. The bench was hearing a bunch of petitions filed by the families of Dabholkar and Pansare seeking monitoring of probes in both the cases by the high court.<br/><br/>The CBI, probing the Dabholkar killing, and Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Maharashtra, investigating the Pansare killing, today submitted fresh reports on the probe in a sealed cover which were perused by both the judges.<br/><br/>The court also asked the Ministry of External Affairs and the Union Home Ministry to coordinate with other departments to ensure that all permissions are in place for CBI to obtain expeditiously the forensic reports from Scotland Yard so that they can be presented before it.

Unhappy with the delay, the Bombay High Court today asked the the CBI and Maharashtra-SIT to complete their probes soon into the killing rationalist Narendra Dabholkar and communist leader Govind Pansare.<br/><br/>The Court also asked the central agency to arrest a suspect within ten days.<br/><br/>The division bench asked the agencies to obtain within eight weeks the reports of forensic science laboratory of Scotland Yard on evidence in the murder cases of Dabholkar, Pansare and scholar M M Kalburgi as it felt that enough time had been lost in obtaining the opinion of a foreign lab.<br/><br/>The CBI, probing the Dabholkar killing, and Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Maharashtra, investigating the Pansare killing, today submitted fresh reports on the probe in a sealed cover which were perused by both the judges. <br/><br/>The bench noted that the CBI report had talked about a suspect in Dabholkar murder case. In this regard, Justice Dharmadhikari asked the CBI to arrest the suspect within ten days. <br/><br/>The court also asked the Ministry of External Affairs and the Union Home Ministry to coordinate with other departments to ensure that all permissions are in place for CBI to obtain expeditiously the forensic reports from Scotland Yard so that they can be presented before it. The bench was hearing a bunch of petitions filed by the families of Dabholkar and Pansare seeking monitoring of probes in both the cases by the high court.