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Claiming that they would "soon" be arrested, Mr. Shah said the "eye-witnesses" to the murder near the posh Law Garden last week had been identified and they had agreed to co-operate with the authorities. The CBI sleuths had also established the motive behind the murder and the modus operandi of the killers. Mr. Shah, who declined to discuss the motive behind the murder, said the inquiry pointed towards the correctness of the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani's initial reaction that it could had been plotted by the Dubai-based Dawood Ibrahim gang and executed through the "nexus" between the terrorists from across the border and the underworld in Mumbai and in the State. While the CBI officers normally operated from Delhi and visited the scene of crime as and when required, in the present case they had decided to stay put till the mystery was solved. The CBI personnel engaged in the operation included six senior officers, he added. Admitting that the murder had created a sense of fear and apprehension among a section of political leaders in the State, Mr. Shah said eight MLAs, a former MLA and five others, including some religious leaders, had requested police protection or additional security. All of them claimed to have received "threats" from religious fundamentalists. The Government was considering providing security to all those who had received threats from the "jehadis".
Waghela's claim
The State Congress president, Shankarsinh Waghela, today claimed that Pandya had told him about 20 days before his death that his life was "in danger". While Pandya did not tell him what made him feel threatened, he had informed him that he was "in possession" of some "explosive materials" that could shake the Narendra Modi Government in the State. Mr. Waghela said that Pandya had been "in touch" with him for sometime because both of them were "sailing in the same boat" — he having rebelled against the BJP leadership earlier and Pandya "wronged" by Mr. Modi and the BJP. "May be Pandya thought I was the right person to guide him in the political crisis he was facing after he was denied the party nomination to contest the December Assembly elections at the behest of Mr. Modi," he said. "If the CBI officials ask me, I would tell them what was in Pandya's mind prior to the murder," Mr. Waghela added.
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