Summary:
HYDERABAD/PUNE: The Pune police on Saturday night took activist/writer and poet P Varavara Rao into custody from his Gandhinagar residence in Hyderabad in connection with the Elgar Parishad case.Rao's arrest comes a day after the Hyderabad high court dismissed two of his pleas for quashing of a Hyderabad magistrate's transit remand enabling the police to produce him before a Pune court and quashing of the FIR against him.The arrest also comes close on the heels of the police filing a chargesheet in a Pune court on Thursday against five other activists arrested on June 6 and five "undergound CPI (Maoist) operatives", including its top three leaders, for a "plot to kill the Prime Minister and conspiracy to create social unrest and overthrow constitutionally elected governments by way of procuring arms and ammunition"..