A Pune court on June 23 sent Sanatan Sanstha lawyer Sanjeev Punalekar, an accused in the murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, in judicial custody till July 6.
Special judge R.M. Pande on June 20 granted Mr. Punalekar’s custody to the CBI till June 23, after the agency said it recovered some “incriminating documents” from the lawyer’s laptop and that he was required to be questioned about it.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on June 23 told the court it does not require any further custody of Mr. Punalekar, following which the judge sent the accused in judicial remand till July 6.
The lawyer and his assistant Vikram Bhave were arrested by the CBI on May 25.
Dabholkar was shot dead in Pune on August 20, 2013.