Bengaluru, Sept 21: Denying its involvement in the coldblooded murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, Goa-based hardline Hindutva outfit Sanatan Sanstha, demanded an “unbiased probe” into the case and said their volunteers (sadhaks) would “co-operate with any probe as required by law.
“Don’t suspect us. No one from Sanatan Sanstha involved in this murder,” said the organization’s national spokesperson Chetan Rajhans in Bengaluru on Thursday.
Asked if the Special Investigation Team (SIT) had, till date, questioned any volunteer in connection with the murder, he said: “Local police in Goa and Maharashtra are inquiring about the murder with our volunteers; but not the SIT.”
The Sanstha had published only one article on her in Sanatan Prabhat, its mouthpiece, when she accused the organisation of involvement in Madgoan blast in Goa, he said.
Mr. Rajhans, while acknowledging Dr. Veerendra Tawde and Sameer Gaekwad chargesheeted in the murders of the two rationalists Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare as “sadhaks” of the Sanstha, claimed the two were “framed.”
“We are not part of BJP. Whoever, is in power what we need is a fair probe. The way the state government in Maharashtra is behaving is also not very different from other governments,” Mr. Rajhans said.
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