CPI leader Pansare, wife shot, critically injured

Senior CPI leader Govind Pansare, who was at the forefront of a campaign against road toll tax, and his wife were today shot at and critically wounded by motorcycle-borne assailants, triggering outrage. "Pansare is critical but stable," Aster Aadhar Hospital's Chief Medical Officer Dr Ulhas Damle told reporters. Damle said Pansare,78, who is undergoing surgery, received three gunshot injuries in the neck, armpit and on the right leg near the knee.