Pune cops search Stan Swami’s house

Pune cops search Stan Swami’s house

Pune: A team of Pune police on Wednesday conducted a search at social activist Father Stan Swami’s residence at Ranchi in Jharkhand.  As per information shared by a senior police official the search was conducted as part of an ongoing investigation in the Elgar Parishad case in which nine activists were earlier arrested for their alleged links with Maoists. The official claimed to have seized some electronic devices to look for evidence in the case. 

“Our team conducted a search at Swami’s residence in Ranchi as part of the ongoing probe into the Elgar Parishad case. We cannot reveal the details currently as we have to go through the content of the devices seized,” the official said.

The case pertains to the Elgar Parishad conclave in Pune district on December 31, 2017, which, the police allege, was funded by Maoists.

According to the city police, speeches made by some activists at the conclave led to the violence near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial in Pune the next day, according to the police charge sheet.

The Pune police earlier filed a charge-sheet against the nine activists - Sudhir Dhavale, Shoma Sen, Surendra Gadling, Mahesh Raut, Rona Wilson, Vara Vara Rao, Arun Ferriera, Sudha Bharadwaj and Vernon Gonzalves. A bail hearing for these activists is going on in a Pune court.

The charge sheet also named absconding Maoist leaders Dipak alias Milind Teltumbade, Kishan Da alias Prashant Bose, Prakash alias Rituparn Goswami, and CPI (Maoist) general secretary Ganapathy alias Chandrashekhar.

The stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) was also slapped on the accused, the police said.

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