The Pune police on Wednesday claimed that it has gathered evidences that hint at Maoist conspiracy to overthrown elected government.
This came reaction came a day after the police arrested five civil rights activists in connection with Koregaon-Bhima violence case.
Police claimed that they came to know about the alleged plot after they analysed the electronic devices, documents and other evidences which they seized from the arrested persons that showed their links with the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), said Pune Deputy Commissioner of Police Shirish Sardeshpande.
The CPI (Maoist) was also engaged in raising funds to incite civil unrest against the administration as part of the larger conspiracy to topple the government, Sardesphande added.
He said that the outlawed organization had funded the Elgar Parishad held in Pune on December 31, 2017 on the eve of the January 1, 2018 caste riots in Koregaon-Bhima.
This is the first official reaction from the Pune Police justifying Tuesday's arrests of lawyer-activist Sudhar Bharadwaj and civil liberties activists Gautam Navlakha, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Fereira and P. Varavara Rao from different parts of India, triggering a massive outcry.
(IANS)
