In November 2020, two UAPA cases were filed in which 90-odd people were named. Of 87 named in the case in Visakhapatnam’s Munchingput police station, 45 were activists with organisations that have been working openly for decades. As many as 27 cases were filed at Guntur’s Piduguralla police station, naming 25 people working with overground organisations. Twenty of them were also accused of involvement in the Munchingput case. It started with the National Investigation Agency arresting P. Naganna at Munchingput and claiming to have recovered Maoist literature, press notes and other incriminating material from his possession. This was followed by arrests of activists of HRF, Civil Liberties Committee, Revolutionary Writers Association, Praja Kala Mandali, Chaitanya Mahila Sangham, Kula Nirmoolana Porata Samithi, Patriotic Democratic Movement, Amarula Bandhu Mitrula Sangham (ABMS), Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners, Pragatisheela Karmika Samakhya and Indian Association of Peoples’ Lawyers. Of the six arrested in the Munchingput case, five were activists with open organisations; there were seven such activists among the eight arrested in the Piduguralla case. B. Sagar, son of B. Anjamma, an arrested ABMS activist, says the cases against his mother and others were fabricated to silence rights activists. “Is it a crime to ensure that bodies of those killed by police are handed over to their families?” asks Sagar.