Mumbai/Pune: As an immediate fallout of the murder of anti-superstition crusader Narendra Dabholkar, the Maharashtra Government promulgated an ordinance banning black magic. The draft of the ordinance was drafted by Dabholkar himself before he was shot dead in Pune on Tuesday.
Chief Minister Prithivi Chavan condemned the murder saying that the perpetrators would be brought to books.
Meanwhile, political parties and social organisations observed a bandh in Pune on Wednesday to protest the murder of the crusader.
Dabholkar murder: Parties call for a bandh in Pune
A protest march was taken out by students and citizens against the murder of the activist, who spearheaded the anti-superstition movement in Maharashtra and pressed for an enactment of law to ban black magic and inhuman practices.
However, police are still clueless about the identity of the culprits, even as a sketch of one of the two motorcycle-borne suspects, who shot dead Dabholkar, was released on Tuesday.
Although the police claimed that they had got "some information", they refused to divulge any details saying it would hamper the investigation. "We do not know who is involved in this and we are probing the case from all angles without ruling out any possibility," a top police official told reporters.
The 69-year-old social activist was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne unidentified assailants at around 7.15 AM on Tuesday, when he was out for a morning walk on the Omkareshwar Temple bridge in the city. Four shots were fired at him from close range by the attackers believed to be in the age group of 25-30 years.
An eyewitness description of the fleeing assailants and the number-plate of the motorbike they rode, is expected to give some leads to the crime branch sleuths, sources said.
Dabholkar's mortal remains were cremated in his hometown Satara last night.