Narendra Dabholkar murder case: Defense refuses to accept prosecution documents

The defence on Wednesday refused to admit the list of 13 documents including the spot panchnama submitted by the prosecution in the rationalist Narendra Dabholkar murder case in a court here in MaharashtraLast week the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI had submitted a list of 13 documents which include the spot panchnama inquest panchnama seizure of clothes and articles of the deceased and various other documents considered evidence in the caseAs charges have been framed in the 2013 murder case the prosecution had submitted a list of documents to Additional Sessions Judge S R Navandar special judge for UAPA casesDefence counsel Suvarna Avhad said they refused to admit the documents submitted by the prosecutionWe moved an application before the court stating that the defence rejects all the documents submitted by the prosecution We told the court that we will be contesting the documents during the trial she saidAlso Read Narendra Dabholkar case Reply to bail plea of main accused Bombay HC tells CBICBIs special public prosecutor Prakash Suryawanshi said the defence rejected all the documentsThey are not admitting anything In normal cases the documents like a spot panchnama inquest panchnama are generally admitted by the defence but in the present case it is their choice whether to accept it or not he saidI will prove these documents by examining my witnesses I will submit a list of documents and witnesses and will start with the examination he saidMeanwhile Avhad said the judge had passed an order about an article published in a Marathi daily and said that an inference can be drawn that the article was published with malafide intentionShe said the court did not take any action in connection with the newspaper article but cautioned that due care should have been takenThe defence had moved a plea before the court along with the newspaper article seeking to initiate a process to issue a contempt of court notice against the author editor and the publication for publishing the articleAccording to the defences application the author of the article claims that this court of additional sessions judge before whose court the trial us undergoing is conducting a trial without authority as the case involved sections under the UAPA Unlawful Activities Prevention ActDabholkar 67 who headed antisuperstition outfit Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti was shot dead in Pune on August 20 2013 allegedly by members of a rightwing extremist groupThe CBI has been conducting a probe into the case which was earlier with the Pune police Virendra Sinh Tawde Sachin Andure Sharad Kalaskar Sanjeev Punalekar and Vikram Bhave are five accused arrested in the caseThe court framed the charges against Tawde Andure Kalaskar and Bhave under Indian Penal Code IPC sections 302 Punishment for murder 120 B criminal conspiracy 34 common intention the Arms Act and section 16 of the stringent UAPA punishment for terrorist act Besides charges were framed against Punalekar under IPC section 201 causing disappearance of evidence or giving false information to screen offenderThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever