The trigger for rationalist Narendra Dabholkar's murder in 2013 was the anti-superstition bill he pioneered in Maharashtra, CBI sources said on Tuesday.
Sources close to the investigation said they have evidence that Hindu Jana Jagriti Samiti member Dr Virendra Singh Tawde, arrested in the case, was told by his organisation to target Dabholkar way back in 2008.
The CBI is presently probing e-mails exchanged between the two from which it was clear, according to sources, that Tawde was receiving instructions from a senior and was passing it on to Akolkar.
The email exchange also suggested that Tawde wanted to build a force of 15,000 men to target 'anti-Hindus', the sources said adding that he broke down when asked to decode the exchanges.
Tawde was arrested by the CBI on Saturday in connection with the murder of Dabholkar who was gunned down by unidentified gunmen near his home in Pune in 2013.
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