PTI, NEW DELHI/MUMBAI/HYDERABAD: Lawyer-activist Sudha Bharadwaj and families of other activists arrested in the recent raids have dismissed the evidence produced by Maharashtra Police to link them with Maoists as “fabricated”.
Bharadwaj, one of the five activists arrested by Maharashtra Police, said a purported letter implicating her was “totally concocted” to criminalise her and human rights organisations.
The police had claimed Friday that Faridabad-based Bharadwaj had written to one “Com Prakash”.
Reacting to this in a handwritten statement, Bharadwaj said the “fabricated letter” had not been brought before the Pune Court or the Faridabad Chief Judicial Magistrate while seeking to “whisk” her to Pune.
In a media briefing in Mumbai, the police had released details of seized letters allegedly linking the arrested activists to the violence in Koregaon-Bhima in January.
On Tuesday, the police arrested Varavara Rao in Hyderabad, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira in Mumbai, Bharadwaj in Faridabad and Gautam Navalakha in Delhi.
