Elgar case: Kin seek jailed activists’ release, write to Maharashtra CM

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. File Pic

The family members of jailed activists, accused in Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, on Wednesday wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, seeking their release from prisons in view of the second wave.

The letter was signed by the family members of 15 activists, including Anand Teltumbde, Gautam Navlakha, Stan Swamy, Sudha Bharadwaj and Rona Wilson.

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The male accused in the case are currently lodged in Taloja jail in neighbouring Navi Mumbai, while the women undertrials are in Byculla prison in central Mumbai. The letter said that the activists were suffering from multiple health issues.

The Elgar Parishad case relates to alleged inflammatory speeches delivered at a conclave held in Pune city on December 31, 2017, which the police claimed triggered violence the next day near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial.

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