The accused have been despatched to 4 days’ NIA custody (Representational)
Pune:
The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) has arrested accused Sagar Tatyaram Gorkhe, Ramesh Murlidhar Gaichor and Jyoti Raghoba Jagtap in reference to the Bhima Koregaon case.
The accused are members of Kabir Kala Manch, a frontal group of banned terrorist group CPI (Maoist), the NIA mentioned in a launch.
The arrested accused have been produced earlier than the NIA Particular Courtroom at Mumbai on Tuesday and 4 days’ NIA custody was granted for interrogation, the discharge mentioned.
“This case arose out of Vishram Baug police station in Pune relating to inciting folks and giving provocative speeches throughout Elgar Parishad organized at Shaniwarwada, Pune by the activists of Kabir Kala Manch on December 31, 2017, which promoted enmity between numerous caste teams and led to violence leading to lack of life and property and state-wide agitation in Maharashtra,” the discharge mentioned.
“Throughout the investigation, it was revealed that senior leaders of CPI (Maoist), an organisation banned underneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, have been in touch with the organizers of Elgar Parishad in addition to the accused arrested within the case in order to unfold the ideology of Maoism/Naxalism and encourage illegal actions,” it added.
The discharge mentioned Pune Police filed charge-sheet and a supplementary charge-sheet on this case on November 15, 2018, and February 21, 2019, respectively and Sagar Gorkhe, Ramesh Gaichor and Jyoti Jagtap are “FIR named accused individuals”.
NIA took up the investigation of the case on January 24, 2020 and arrested accused Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha on April 14, 2020. One other accused Hanybabu Musaliyavirtil Tarayil was arrested on July 28, 2020.
“Throughout the investigation, it was revealed that accused Sagar Tatyaram Gorkhe, Ramesh Murlidhar Gaichor and Jyoti Raghoba Jagtap have been propagating Naxal actions and Maoist ideology and have been co-conspirators with different arrested accused. It has additionally come on file that the arrested accused individuals have been in touch with lacking accused Milind Teltumbde about City community of CPI (Maoist).”
Additionally, it’s established that in their visits (of Kabir Kala Manch members) in jungle, they underwent weapon and explosive coaching and consciousness programme on numerous matters associated to Maoist motion, the discharge mentioned.
The NIA mentioned additionally it is established that as per the proof on file that in June 2018 lacking accused Milind Teltumbde mentioned the Elgar Parishad Programme which was organized at Pune and the next in-roads made by the CPI (Maoist) within the group and execution via the members of Kabir Kala Munch and different frontal organizations.
The arrested accused have been produced earlier than the NIA Particular Courtroom at Mumbai on Tuesday and 4 days NIA custody was granted for interrogation.
