A letter retrieved from the house of one of the five recently arrested activists recently for having links with the outlawed CPI (Maoist) speaks of Naxalites mulling over “another Rajiv Gandhi incident” as part of “concrete steps to end the Modi raj,” the Pune police submitted before the Sessions court in Pune. Teams of the police on Wednesday arrested noted Dalit activist-publisher Sudhir Dhawale from Mumbai, prominent human rights lawyer Surendra Gadling, tribal activist Mahesh Raut and Nagpur University English Professor Shoma Sen from Nagpur and activist Rona Wilson from New Delhi. The arrests were made for their alleged linkages with Naxalism, their role in organising the ‘Elgaar Parishad’ on December 31 last and the subsequent Bhima-Koregaon violence the next day.

A letter retrieved from the house of one of the five recently arrested activists recently for having links with the outlawed CPI (Maoist) speaks of Naxalites mulling over “another Rajiv Gandhi incident” as part of “concrete steps to end the Modi raj,” the Pune police submitted before the Sessions court in Pune. Teams of the police on Wednesday arrested noted Dalit activist-publisher Sudhir Dhawale from Mumbai, prominent human rights lawyer Surendra Gadling, tribal activist Mahesh Raut and Nagpur University English Professor Shoma Sen from Nagpur and activist Rona Wilson from New Delhi. The arrests were made for their alleged linkages with Naxalism, their role in organising the ‘Elgaar Parishad’ on December 31 last and the subsequent Bhima-Koregaon violence the next day.