Dabholkar was shot dead in Pune on 20 August 2013. Two men were convicted of murder in May 2024, three acquitted, and both convicts got bail pending appeal in…
Youngest of ten children, he trained as a doctor at Miraj medical college.
After a decade as a doctor, he built a movement exposing fake miracles and exploitation.
He said his anti-superstition bill had sat through seven Assembly sessions.
Two men on a motorcycle shot him at about 7:20 am. He was 67.
The cabinet cleared his stalled bill as an ordinance the day after the killing.
Four months from his death to a full law.
With no arrest that would stand, the court moved the case from Pune police to the CBI.
ENT surgeon Virendrasinh Tawade was held as the alleged planner.
Sachin Andure and Sharad Kalaskar were arrested as the men on the motorcycle.
The CBI changed its account between 2016 and 2019.
Five accused were charged. All pleaded not guilty.
Andure and Kalaskar got life for murder. Tawade, Punalekar and Bhave were acquitted.
Two convicted of murder, three acquitted.
His life sentence was suspended pending appeal. No identification parade was ever held.
The court called the evidence against him extremely weak at first look.
What the High Court said in 2026.
Bail pending appeal is not an acquittal.
From the killing to the bail orders.
Two convictions stand, both men are out on bail, and appeals are pending.
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