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In multi-city raids, five activists with alleged Maoist links arrested

| @indiablooms | Aug 28, 2018, at 10:32 pm

New Delhi, Aug 28 (IBNS): Five activists with alleged Maoist links were arrested on Tuesday in multi-city raids, media reports said.

The arrested have been identified as Varavara Rao, lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, activists Arun Fereira, Gautam Navlakha and Vernon Gonsalves.
 
Late night reports said activist Sudha Bharadwaj, who was arrested from her residence in Faridabad, is being taken to Pune even as her lawyers alleged that the move is against the orders of Punjab and Haryana High Court, which they claimed put a stay order on her transit remand.

 

The situation has been described in media reports as "absolutely chilling" and a "virtual declaration of emergency".

The raids and arrests were made by the Pune police in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence in January.

The Bhima Koregaon violence witnessed Dalit activists clash with upper-caste Marathas.

The raids were carried out in several cities like Delhi, Faridabad, Goa, Mumbai, Ranchi and Hyderabad.

 

 

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