Mumbai, Jan 2 (Reporter) The Bombay High Court on Thursday refused to further monitor the probe of the death of a left-wing Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (CPI). Govind Pansare was fatally shot in Kolhapur on February 16, 2015, and succumbed to his injuries four days later. Initially, the local police handled the investigation, but due to a lack of progress, it was later transferred to the CID SIT. The division bench of Justices Ajey S. Gadkari and Kamal R. Khata, while disposing of the plea by the kin of deceased activist seeking a court-monitored probe into his death, said that the investigation did not require further oversight and directed the lower court to expedite the trial. The high court, on August 3, 2022, transferred the investigation into the death to the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) from the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Maharashtra Criminal Investigation Department (CID). In its verdict on the plea by Pansare’s daughter and daughter-in-law seeking a probe into his death and its monitoring, the bench today noted that the ATS had investigated the allegations made by petitioners from “all angles,” and except for the arrest of two absconding accused, nothing further remained to be probed. The court observed, “...continuous monitoring of the further investigation by this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India is not necessary. After the accused persons are arrested, the investigating agency can report it to the trial court as per the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).” The bench noted that the trial in the case had already commenced on December 16, 2024, and the prosecution had examined 28 witnesses. The bench referred to Supreme Court judgements in the Vineet Naraian and Shahid Balwa cases, which held that the task of monitoring by the court would end the moment the chargesheet is filed in the matter. It also disposed of intervention pleas by some accused persons against the high court’s continued monitoring of the case...////...