CPI leader Govind Pansare critical but stable, 5 detained

Mangalore Today News Network

Kohlapur, February 17, 2015:  The condition of senior CPI leader Govind Pansare, who was shot at by motorcycle-borne assailants, is critical but stable even as police have detained five persons in connection with the attack.

 

Pansare, 78, who was at the forefront of a campaign against road toll tax, and his wife were shot at and critically wounded by the assailants on Monday outside the Ideal Housing Society when the couple was returning after their daily morning walk. The Communist leader received three gunshot injuries in the neck, armpit and on the right leg near the knee.

"Pansare is critical but stable. Pansare underwent three operations yesterday which lasted for about eight hours. A team of nine doctors operated upon him and managed to remove a bullet lodged in his chest after he was shot in the armpit. The bleeding from the injury in his neck was also controlled. He was later shifted to the ICU," Aster Aadhar Hospital’s Chief Medical Officer Dr Ulhas Damle said.

However, there has been some damage to his lungs because of which he has been kept on ventilator. But his pulse and blood pressure are stable and kidneys are functioning normally, Damle added.
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Meanwhile, five persons have been detained "on ground of suspicion" in this connection late on Monday, a senior police official said but refused to comment any further. The attack comes almost a year-and-half since the murder of noted rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, who was shot in a similar manner in Pune.

The incident triggered outrage and many senior leaders, including Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray and Leader of Opposition in state Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, had condemned the attack on Pansare.

Fadnavis had said on Monday that ten police teams have been formed to apprehend the culprits. "This incident is condemnable and shocking. I have sought information. He is critical. Let us pray for his recovery," he said

Courtesy: Indiatoday