The NIA statement comes in the draft charge sheet in the twin cases filed against 16 arrested accused
The National Investigation Agency (NIA), in a shocking revelation has said that the accused in the Bhima-Koregaon and Elgar Parishad cases had allegedly recruited students of two top Indian universities for terror activities in the country.
The NIA statement comes in the draft charge sheet in the twin cases filed against 16 arrested accused and six other absconders. The draft charge sheet was filed before the NIA Special Court’s Special Judge DE Kothalikar last week after long investigations into the twin cases.
As per the NIA, the accused had “recruited students from various universities including the two highly reputed Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai) for commission of terrorist activities”.
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They are accused of promoting the activities and ideologies of the banned outfits, mobilising people and students, training in handling sophisticated arms and explosives with the larger objective to conspire against and destabilise the government of India and Government of Maharashtra, threaten its sovereignty with large-scale violence, strike terror in the people, among other things.
The arrested accused in the cases are: Sudhir P. Dhawale, Vernon S. Gonsalves (both of Mumbai), Arun T. Fereira of Thane, Rona J. Wilson and Gautam Navlakha (all of New Delhi), Surendra P. Gadling, Shoma K. Sen, Mahesh S. Raut (all of Nagpur), P. Varavara Rao of Hyderabad, Hany Babu M. Tharayil of Trichur, Sagar Gorkhe of Ahmednagar, Sudha Bharadwaj of Faridabad, Anand B. Teltumbde of Yavatmal, Ramesh Gaichor of Pune, and the late Fr. Stan Lourduswamy of Tamil Nadu, who died on July 5 in Mumbai while in custody.
The accused named as absconders are: Milind Teltumbde aliases Dipak and Sahyadri of Yavatmal, Prakash Goswami aliases Navin and Ritupan Goswami of Assam, Kishan Bose aliases Prashanto of Kolkata, Mupalla Laxman Rao, alias Ganpati, Chandrashekhar, Manglu, and Deepu.
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