Mumbai, Aug. 18 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted bail to Sachin Andhure, accused in the Narendra Dhabolkar murder case and also put a stay on the 2024 life imprisonment sentence.

Activist and rationalist Narendra Dhabolkar was shot dead in Pune on August 20, 2013, while out for a morning walk. In the case, a Pune sessions court in 2024 had sentenced two people while acquitting three others.

Sharad Kalaskar and Sachin Andhure were given life imprisonment for the murder.

Padma Shri awardee Narendra Dhabolkar was a social worker working to eradicate superstition. He founded the Maharashtra Andhrashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS), also called the Committee for Eradication of Superstition in Maharashtra.

He regularly questioned p...