Nagpur: The Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted eight weeks time to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file status reports, as some reports are still awaited, in the sensational murder of veteran architect Eknath Nimgade.
Notably, back in April 2022, the High Court was unsatisfied with the status report filed by the CBI. According to the petitioner lawyer Anupam Nimgade, son of the deceased architect, the premier investigating agency is not moving in the right direction while probing the murder case.
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It may be recalled that the architect Eknath Nimgade was shot five times by assailants when he was returning from a morning walk on September 6, 2016, at Lal Imli Chowk in Nagpur. The Tehsil police had registered a case of murder and formed as many as 15 squads to trace the assailants. Eight shots had been fired at him, of which five bullets pierced his body.
After the police failed to find the culprits for a long time, his son and lawyer Anupam Nimgade had approached the judiciary, demanding an inquiry by CBI. His family members had also claimed the police had been pressurizing them to make confessions and were shoddy in their investigations.
