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Marathi actor Bharat Dabholkar recalls his ‘kurta connection’ with Dharmendra

Marathi actor Bharat Dabholkar recalls his ‘kurta connection’ with Dharmendra

Mumbai, Noted advertising professional and actor Bharat Dabholkar has recalled his ‘kurta connection’ with Bollywood icon Dharmendra. Marathi actor Bharat Dabholkar recalls his ‘kurta connection’ with Dharmendra Dabholkar, who has also appeared in Marathi theatre and in films, took to social media to recount his connect with the late star, adding he never met him. “Years ago, Satish Bhatia sir, the ace director of photography, had given me the lead role in his Marathi directorial TV serial Gharo Ghari, opposite the hugely talented Savita Prabhune,” Dabholkar, 56, wrote on Facebook. “One night, he called me and said tomorrow we are shooting a bedroom scene, so carry your night clothes. I spent the whole night, visualising great images of a ‘bedroom’ scene, and carried my white kurta and a lungi, only to be informed that a white kurta won’t do on TV as it blurrs . Dabholkar said that was when Bhosle Dada, who had worked with Hrishikesh Mukherjee, and was in charge of the unit’s costume department, announced that in his ‘peti’ he had some …

How probe in 2017 Gauri Lankesh murder unlocked leads in 2013 killing of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar | Bangalore News

It was a probe by a Special Investigation Team of the Karnataka Police into the September 5, 2017, shooting of journalist Gauri Lankesh, 55, at her home in Bengaluru that cracked open the CBI investigations in the August 20, 2013 murder in Pune of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, 69, by members of a right-wing extremist group. On Friday, a sessions court in Pune convicted two persons — Sachin Andhure and Sharad Kalaskar — to life imprisonment following a trial where they were identified as the shooters who gunned down Dabholkar on the morning of August 20, 2013, while he was out for a morning walk in Pune. The court, however, acquitted three conspirators in the case. The ballistic analysis reports for the two murders in Karnataka in 2015 and 2017, the SIT’s arrest of a man who plotted the murders, the discovery of a diary he kept with the coded names of shooters, trainers and logistics providers and the arrest of a shooter and trainer for the 2017 murder by the SIT — all of these …

2 Found Guilty In Activist Narendra Dabholkar Murder Case, Get Life In Prison

New Delhi: Two people were today sentenced to life imprisonment by a Pune court for the 2013 murder of activist Narendra Dabholkar. The court acquitted three other accused in the case. Reading out the order in a packed courtroom, Additional Sessions Judge (Special Court) P P Jadhav said that the prosecution had proved the charges of murder and conspiracy against Sachin Andure and Sharad Kalaskar and they have been awarded life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5 lakh. According to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Andure and Kalaskar had shot Dabholkar. The court acquitted accused ENT surgeon Tawde, Sanjeev Punalekar and Vikram Bhave for want of evidence. Narendra Dabholkar, who headed the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, was shot dead in Pune on August 20, 2013, allegedly by the members of a fringe group. Dabholkar’s murder in Pune had been followed by the shooting of Govind Pansare in February 2015 and MM Kalburgi in Kolhapur in August the same year. Gauri Lankesh was shot dead outside her home in Bengaluru in September 2017. Pune …

Pune special court to pronounce verdict in Narendra Dabholkar murder case on May 10 | Pune News

A special court in Pune, which is conducting the trial in the case of the murder of anti-superstition activist Dr Narendra Dabholkar, is set to pronounce the verdict on May 10, more than 10 years after the crime. Dr Dabholkar, a rationalist, anti-superstition activist and founder of Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, was shot dead by two bike-borne assailants on the V R Shinde Bridge in Pune on August 20, 2013. During a hearing of the case on Thursday, Additional Sessions Judge P P Jadhav, who is presiding over the Special Court for cases under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), set the day of the judgement. Advocate Omkar Nevagi, who represents the family of Dr Dabholkar said, “The court is set to pronounce the judgement in the case on May 10. The prosecution and defence have concluded their final arguments.” The accused being tried for murder include ENT surgeon Dr Virendrasinh Tawade, who was chargesheeted in September 2016, the two alleged assailants Sachin Andure and Sharad Kalaskar, who were chargesheeted in February 2019, Mumbai-based lawyer …

Dabholkar murder case: Defence lawyer questions photo-identification of accused, crime reconstruction process | Pune News

Amid the ongoing trial in the Narendra Dabholkar murder case, defence counsel Virendra Ichalkaranjikar on Tuesday questioned the photo identification of the accused done by the eyewitnesses in the case and also the process of crime reconstruction done by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Advocate Ichalkaranjikar continued his final arguments in the court of Additional Sessions Judge PP Jadhav on Tuesday. “Today, as part of my continued arguments, I questioned the very legitimacy of the crime reconstruction panchnama cited by the prosecution. For this process, the accused and the witnesses were not taken to the crime scene together, which is the required procedure,” said the advocate. He also questioned the photo identification of the accused done by the eyewitnesses. “I argued that the eyewitnesses have said that they find resemblance in the photos they were shown and the suspect they saw at the crime scene. The term resemblance is far from asserting that they were the ones at the crime scene. I also asked that when the accused were present in the prison and …