The CBI has filed a closure report in the RTI activist Satish Shetty murder case in Pune, who was hacked to death 10 years ago, claiming it could not find enough evidence against the accused, officials said here today.
They said the final report in the case was filed before the competent court recently as the probe could not bring out enough evidence to prosecute the accused.
It is alleged that Shetty was trying to expose a major land scam involving a high-profile builder which triggered his gruesome murder on January 13, 2010.
Two retired police officers were taken into custody in connection with the case for alleged tampering of evidence and were charge sheeted by the agency, they said.
It is not the first time the agency has filed a closure report in the case. The agency had filed the closure report in a local court in August 2014, saying it could not find any prosecutable evidence against the suspects.
The agency in 2015 had reopened the investigation claiming that some new evidence has surfaced during its searches in the offices of the builder in Pune and Mumbai.
It had carried out the searches at 21 locations to probe allegations of land grabbing along the Mumbai-Pune Highway on the directions of the Bombay High Court. Following the searches, the case was reopened.
The accused in the alleged land grabbing case have also been discharged by the special CBI court last month.
Shetty, who had unearthed many land-related scams in Pune district using the Right To Information Act, was stabbed to death by unidentified persons while he was on a morning walk near his house in Talegaon-Dabhade in the district on January 13, 2010.
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