Pune: The nine activists arrested in the
Elgar Parishad
case were shifted to Arthur Road and Byculla
jails
in Mumbai on Wednesday from the Yerawada central prison, days after Pune police handed over the investigation to the National Investigation Agency.
The prisons department shifted seven activists— Surendra Gadling, Rona Wilson, Sudhir Dhawale, P Varavara Rao, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira and Mahesh Raut—to Arthur Road jail for undertrial prisoners. Sudha Bharadwaj and Shoma Sen are in Byculla women’s jail. Special UAPA court, Pune, had passed an order to produce them before NIA court in Mumbai on February 28.tnn
Asseem Shaikh is a special correspondent at The Times of India, P...
Read MoreAsseem Shaikh is a special correspondent at The Times of India, Pune. He holds a PG degree in Journalism and Communication and Human Rights, and has been a journalist for about 20 years now. He covers the crime and legal beats with special focus on ‘syndicated’ crime, cyber crime, terrorism, custodial deaths, fake encounters and human rights violations. Has made good use of the Right to Information Act for journalistic purposes. He loves to travel.
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