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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Koregaon cuffs on editor, professor -Pheroze L Vincent

Koregaon cuffs on editor, professor -Pheroze L Vincent

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published Published on Jun 7, 2018   modified Modified on Jun 7, 2018
-The Telegraph

New Delhi: Police have arrested five activists, including an editor, a professor and a lawyer, on the suspicion of being Maoists, more than six months after an attack by alleged Hindutva groups on Ambedkarities visiting a war memorial near Pune.

Those arrested have been booked under several charges, including the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.

Pune police on Wednesday arrested Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) spokesperson Rona Wilson from New Delhi, Marathi fortnightly Vidrohi's editor Sudhir Dhawale from Mumbai, and lawyer Surendra Gadling, professor Shoma Sen and former Prime Minister Rural Development (PMRD) Fellow Mahesh Raut from Nagpur.

In a Delhi court, which granted Wilson's transit remand, the police claimed they had seized "incriminating" materials, including emails to alleged Maoists, during raids on the five in April.

A police source said the five would be probed for their links with Maoists and whether they attempted to incite the violence at an event preceding the Koregaon anniversary.

In 1927, B.R. Ambedkar had begun an annual gathering of his mostly Dalit followers at Koregaon Bhima, where the East India Company's predominantly Mahar Dalit force of 824 men defeated Peshwa Baji Rao II's army of 28,000 mostly Maratha troops on January 1, 1818.

On the second centenary, Ambedkarites were attacks by mobs allegedly led by RSS leader Manohar Bhide's Shri Shiva Prathisthan Hindustan and former BJP corporator Milind Ekbote's Samasth Hindu Aghadi. A 28-year-old passer-by was killed in stone-pelting.

Bhide, whom Narendra Modi had addressed as Guruji in 2014, was given a clean chit by Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis in March. Ekbote was arrested and granted bail in April.

On December 31, several Ambedkarite groups had held an event called the Elgar Parishad (Declaration Council) "calling for an end to neo-Peshwai", in Pune's Shaniwarwada. Gujarat MLA and land rights activist Jignesh Mevani, Jawaharlal Nehru University student activist Umar Khalid, deceased Hyderabad University Dalit scholar Vemula Rohith's mother Radhika and several others spoke at the event.

On Wednesday, Mevani called the arrests of the five activists an "attack on the Ambedkarite movement".

Dalit intellectual Anand Teltumbde said in a statement: "The entire operation has been stage-managed by the Maharashtra government keeping in mind the judicial enquiry headed by Justice J.N. Patel (Retd) in order to ensure that submissions from the victims of the Hindutva and state violence are suppressed.

"It has also been done to queer the pitch for the forthcoming elections in the state as well as 2019. The BJP government is desperate to create a reign of terror in order to polarise the Dalit and Bahujan votes."

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The Telegraph, 7 June, 2018, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/koregaon-cuffs-on-editor-professor-236032?ref=india-new-stry


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