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Two men arrested by Goa police in Narendra Dabholkar murder case

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Narendra Dabholkar

Goa:  Two men have been picked up by the Goa police in connection with the Dabholkar murder case.

They are Mangesh Harbhan Singh Chaudhary, 30, a Nallasopara resident and Mumtaz alias Munnabhai Rasool Ansari, 43, a Jogeshwari resident, according to the Panaji police record.

A crusader against all types of superstitions in society, he fought tooth and nail to bring the Anti-Jaadu Tona Bill (earlier anti-superstitions bill) in Maharashtra.

Certain sections of the Warkari sect opposed him for this. Dabholkar had recently blamed Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan stating that he had betrayed all progressive people in the state.

For last 18 years Dr Narendra Dabholkar was fighting with Maharashtra state government to pass the anti superstition and black magic bill. He was demanding state government to pass the bill in the last state assembly’s monsoon session.

There was a strong opposition from Hindu extremists organisations and Warkaris to the bill, but Dabholkar was determined to get the bill passed and he stated that he was not against anybody’s faith, but was against superstition.

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