The raids were carried out as part of the probe into the violence at Maharashtra's Koregaon Bhima village following an event held in Pune last year, a senior police officer says.
Bhima
Koregaon Violence :
Pune Police on Tuesday conducted searches
at the residences of prominent activists across the country for their
suspected Maoist links, a senior police officer said.
The
raids were carried out as part of the probe into the violence at
Maharashtra's Koregaon Bhima village following an event held in Pune
last year, he said.
Searches
are being carried out at the homes of Left wing activist and poet
Varavara
Rao in Hyderabad, activists Vernon Gonzalves and Arun Ferreira in
Mumbai, trade union activist Sudha Bhardwaj in Chhattisgarh and civil
liberties activist Gautam Navalakha, who lives in Delhi, he said.
Rao's
name had cropped up in a letter seized by the police during searches
at the premises of one of the five people arrested in June in
connection with the Elgar Parishad event on December 31 last year to
commemorate 200 years of the Koregaon Bhima battle in 1818.
In
June, five people were arrested for having close Maoist links after
they allegedly made "provocative" speeches at the event,
triggering violence at Koregaon Bhima village in the district,
according to an FIR registered at the Vishrambaug Police Station
after the event.
Dalit
activist Sudhir Dhawale was arrested from his home in Mumbai, while
lawyer Surendra Gadling, activist Mahesh Raut and Shoma Sen were
picked up from Nagpur and Rona Wilson was arrested from his flat in
Munirka in Delhi in simultaneous raids in June.
Police
said probes were being conducted at homes of the five arrested and
those who were directly or indirectly connected with them.
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