On February 10, 2005, an alleged Maoist attack in Pavagada under Thirumani police station jurisdiction had claimed the lives of six Karnataka State Reserve Police Force, a cook, and a civilian.
The Bombay High Court had on December 21 dismissed the petition filed by Anand Teltumbde seeking the quashing of the FIR and granted him interim protection from arrest for three weeks.
The Pune Police had arrested Gautam Navlakha and four other activists on August 28 in relation with their alleged involvement in the Elgaar Parishad and the Bhima Koregaon violence.
Interestingly, the Delhi HC has also initiated contempt proceedings against Journalist S Gurumurthy for calling out the alleged bias of Judge S Muralidhar.
The house arrest of all the three activists will be ending today and the Pune police can take them into custody and produce them in the court for additional interrogation.
The Supreme Court today refused to interfere with the arrests and also refused to constitute SIT and asked the Pune police to go ahead with their probe.