On August 26, the Pune police arrested five persons—Arun Ferreira, Sudha Bharadwaj, Gautam Navlakha, Varavara Rao and Vernon Gonsalves—ostensibly in the course of a probe into incidents at a public meeting on December 31, 2017.
The complaint that the police claimed to be acting on had named persons other than these five, and alleged that those others were guilty of ‘creating disharmony between communities’. None of the five persons arrested was present at the said public meeting. None of them was named in the complaint. All of them are public persons with long histories of publicly holding governments to account for their actions.
Significantly, by the time of the arrests, the police claimed that they were investigating not just the offence of ‘creating disharmony between communities’, but also those related to ‘terrorism’ under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967 (UAPA). This meant that if the five arrestees were taken into custody, they faced the possibility of long years in jail.
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