The 10,000-page supplemental charge sheet mentions a “systematic network of Maoists operating to supply arms and ammunition,” with links to banned equipment in India and abroad. The charge sheet named lawyer and activist Gautam Navlakha; the academic Anand Teltumbde; DU Associate Professor Hany Babu; members of the cultural group Kabir Kala Manch Sagar Gorkhe, Ramesh Gaichor and Jyoti Jagta; Jesuit priest Stan swamy and Milind Teltumbde.
Except for Milind, allegedly a senior CPI official (Maoist), all are in custody. Stan Swamy, 83, was the last to be elected on Thursday. This is the NIA’s first charge sheet after it took over the Pune police investigation in January. The Pune police had filed two charge sheets in 2018 and 2019.
These individuals were named during the investigations, but except for Milind Teltumbde, none had been charged. Sixteen people are in jail, nine of them for more than two years, for a case related to the caste clashes that broke out in Bhima Koregaon on January 1, 2018.
The NIA said its investigation revealed that the defendants conspired to promote the ideology of the PCI (Maoist) and incited violence, incited discontent towards the government and promoted enmity between groups on the basis of religion, caste and community. Milind also organized camps to provide weapons training to other defendants. The NIA claims that the active role of Navlakha, the highest-profile defendant, emerged in the 10,000 pages of secret communications with CPI (Maoist) cadres recovered during the investigation. The NIA said that Navlakha was recruiting cadres for the PCI (Maoist).
DU professor Hany Babu said the agency played a decisive role in organizing visits by foreign journalists to areas controlled by the CPI (Maoist) and was assigned responsibility for the Revolutionary Democratic Front, a banned group in Andhra Pradesh. and Telangana. He said he was in contact with the Manipur Kanglepak Communist Party terrorist group and was making efforts for the release of the convicted defendant GN Saibaba following the instructions of the PCI (Maoist).
Sagar Gorkhe, Ramesh Gaichor and Jyoti Jagtap, according to the charge sheet, have received weapons training from CPI (Maoist) cadres. They are also members of Kabir Kala Manch, a front organization of the CPI (Maoist), and attended meetings for the organization of the Elgar Parishad program, he said. “Stan Swamy propagated among cadres that the arrest of CPI (Maoist) urban cadres from different parts of the country has caused irrevocable damage to the (Maoist) CPI,” NIA said. Swamy allegedly received funds from Maoist cadres to promote the activities of the CPI (Maoist), he said, adding that he is a coordinator of the PPSC, a front organization of the CPI (Maoist).
Anand Teltumbde was one of the organizers of “Bhima Koregaon Shaurya Din Prerna Abhiyan” and was present at Shaniwar Wada on December 31, 2017. The charge sheet says that Elgar Parishad at Shaniwar Wada in Pune was funded by CPI (Maoist) to create riots and overthrow the government. The NIA alleged that provocative speeches by Kabir Kala Manch activists promoted enmity between caste groups and led to clashes in Bhima Koregaon.
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