Kolhapur: CPI leader Govind Pansare is still critical after he had been shot by assailants and is wife in Kolhapur.
The Maharashtra Police have launched a massive manhunt to nab the assailants. 5 people had been detained “on ground of suspicion” in the connection.
Reports said that as many as 20 teams have been formed under the direct supervision of the Director General of Police to crack the case.
The report also said that an ACP level officer has been made in-charge of the investigation.
The Kolhapur Police are tracing all known history-sheeters in the city even as teams have been sent out nearby towns like Satara and Sangli.
Meanwhile, Govind Pansare is said to be recovering well to medical care but his condition remains critical.
Chief Medical Officer of Aster Aadhar Hospital Dr. Ulhas Damle said, “Pansare is critical but stable. Pansare underwent three operations yesterday which lasted for about eight hours. A team of nine doctors operated upon him and managed to remove a bullet lodged in his chest after he was shot in the armpit. The bleeding from the injury in his neck was also controlled. He was later shifted to the ICU.”
Damle said that there has been some damage to his lungs because of which he has been kept on ventilator. But his pulse and blood pressure are stable and kidneys are functioning normally.
CMO also said that Pansare’s wife Uma was also operated last evening for a fracture on right side of the skull. She is now conscious and being treated in the ICU.
Pansare and wife were shot by motorcycle-borne around 8 am on Monday outside their home in Ideal Housing Society, when the two were returning after their daily morning walk from Shivaji University.
While Pansare was hit by bullets on the nape of his neck and another brushing his hand, his wife Sau Uma Pansare suffered a single bullet.
82- year old Pansare is a lawyer and writer and he was leading a campaign against the collection of toll in Maharashtra.
He was threatened and abused for speaking against the glorification of Nathuram Godse at a gathering fifteen days ago.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has expressed shock at the incident and assured that speedy probe will be carried out to arrest the guilty.
CPI (M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury had condemned the incident claimed such incidents as “becoming a sort of a routine matter” in Maharashtra.
Yechury also said, “Yes, he was leading an agitation of Left parties against toll taxes…That has been a very popular and a very big agitation and surely there are vested interests who would lose because of this. They may be targeting.”
“Also he has written a very popular book on projection of Shivaji and what actually the history was and how these are being used by all these Hindu communal outfits mainly Shiv Sena and the BJP. So that could also be one of the reasons.”
Bureau Report
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