India, Sept. 4 -- The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Maharashtra government in a special leave petition filed by Smita and Megha Pansare, kin of late CPI leader Govind Pansare, who was shot by two unidentified men at Kolhapur on 16 February 2015.

A bench comprising justice MM Sundresh and justice N Kotiswar Singh was hearing a petition which contends that the probe has failed to make any meaningful progress since the high court transferred it to the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) from the Special Investigation Team in August 2022.

Earlier this year, Pansare's daughter and daughter-in-law had filed a petition in the Bombay High Court seeking ATS monitoring by the high court. However, on January 2, the court dismissed the plea, ...