CBI on Wednesday charged Hindu Janajagruti Samiti member Virendrasing Tawde with criminal conspiracy and murder in connection with the murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar in 2013.
Tawde was arrested earlier in 2016.
The Samiti is allegedly linked with Sanatan Sanstha, which had come under the scanner for the murder of another rationalist Govind Pansare in February 2015.
CBI sources said the chargesheet was filed against Tawde under the sections of 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 302 (murder) of IPC among other charges.
The Bombay High Court in May 2014 had handed over the matter to the CBI to probe the murder of Dabholkar, an anti-superstition activist, in broad daylight on 20 August 2013.
An alleged follower of Sanatan Sanstha, activist Sarang Akolkar is also under the scanner of the agency, added the sources. Earlier, a Red Corner Notice was issued against him by Interpol in July 2012 in connection with the 2009 Goa blast case on NIA request,
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