ACTIVISTS IN ELGAR PARISHAD CASE CHARGESHEETED
PUNE: Pune police on Thursday filed a chargesheet against 10 people, including five activists arrested, for alleged links with banned outfit CPI (Maoist), which according to investigators, orchestrated caste riots at Bhima Koregaon. The 5,160-page chargesheet filed by police before Sessions
Judge K D Vadane, accuses advocate Surendra Gadling, Prof Shoma Sen, Sudhir Dhawale, Mahesh Raut, Rona Wilson and five others working with CPI (Maoist) to create violence on January 1 at Bhima Koregaon. Others charged include underground CPI (Maoist) members Milind Teltumbde, Prakash alias Navin alias Ritupan Goswami, Manglu, Deepu and Kisan alias Prashanto Bose. Gadling and Sen, along with Gadchiroli-based activist Mahesh Raut, Mumbai-based Dalit activist and editor of Marathi magazine ‘Vidrohi’, Sudhir Dhawale, and a freelance research scholar from Delhi, Rona Wilson, were arrested on June 8.
BJP MP from Ladakh tenders resignation
JAMMU: A 71- year-old Thupstan Chhewang BJP MP from Ladakh constituency has tendered his resignation from the primary membership of the party and also from the post of member parliament citing “health” grounds. In a letter addressed to state party chief Ravinder Raina, Chhewang informed that he has resigned from the primary membership of the BJP and was also writing separately to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan about his decision.