In a shocking revelation, the National InvestigationAgency (NIA) has said that the accused in the Koregaon-Bhima and Elgar Parishadcases had allegedly recruited students of two top Indian universities forterror activities in the country and in Maharashtra.
The NIA statement comes in the draft charge sheet in thetwin cases filed against 16 arrested accused and six other absconders in thesensational cases that have rocked the Indian polity for the past four years.
The draft charge sheet was filed before the NIA SpecialCourt's Special Judge D.E. Kothalikar last week after long investigations intothe twin cases.
As per the NIA, the accused had "recruited studentsfrom various universities including the two highly reputed Jawaharlal NehruUniversity (New Delhi) and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai) forcommission of terrorist activities".
They are accused of promoting the activities andideologies of the banned outfits, mobilising people and students, training inhandling sophisticated arms and explosives with the larger objective toconspire against and destabilise the government of India and Government ofMaharashtra, threaten its sovereignty with large-scale violence, strike terrorin the people, among other things.
For these objectives, the NIA said that the accusedthrough the banned organisation and its frontal outfits, had arranged to raiseRs 8 crore for annual supplies of M-4 (sophisticated weapons) with 4,00,000rounds and others arms from suppliers in Manipur and neighbouring country of Nepalto overawe and undermine the Centre and the Maharashtra governments.
The arrested accused in the cases are: Sudhir P. Dhawale,Vernon S. Gonsalves (both of Mumbai), Arun T. Fereira of Thane, Rona J. Wilsonand Gautam Navlakha (all of New Delhi), Surendra P. Gadling, Shoma K. Sen,Mahesh S. Raut (all of Nagpur), P. Varavara Rao of Hyderabad, Sudha Bharadwajof Faridabad, Anand B. Teltumbde of Yavatmal, Hany Babu M. Tharayil of Trichur,Sagar Gorkhe of Ahmednagar, Ramesh Gaichor of Pune, and the late Fr. StanLourduswamy of Tamil Nadu, who died on July 5 in Mumbai while in custody.
The accused named as absconders are: Milind Teltumbdealiases Dipak and Sahyadri of Yavatmal, Prakash Goswami aliases Navin andRitupan Goswami of Assam, Kishan Bose aliases Prashanto of Kolkata, MupallaLaxman Rao, alias Ganpati, Chandrashekhar, Manglu, and Deepu.
The NIA said that all the accused are 'active members' ofthe banned terrorist organisation CPI (Maoist) and its frontal organisationswhich were declared unlawful by the Union Home Ministry in 2009.
The frontal organisations listed by the NIA are: KabirKala Manch (which organised the Elgar Parishad at Pune on December 31, 2017,the alleged fallout of which were the caste riots in Koregaon-Bhima on January1, 2018), Anuradha Ghandy Memorial Committee, Persecuted Prisoners SolidarityCommittee, Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights, Peoples Union forDemocratic Rights, Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation, DemocraticStudents Union, Visthapan Virodhi Jan Vikas Andolan, and Revolutionary WritersAssociation.