Summary:
Quoting the charge sheet, he pointed out that the police during investigations had recovered number of letters, but their source was not known. The charge sheet filed was incomplete if the police had failed to supply copies of the cloned data to the activists, he said. He said one Sagar Gorkhe had raised objectionable slogans for creating division between two communities in the event, but he was not an accused before the court. He said there was no evidence to show that Raut had given funds for organizing the Parishad.He submitted that there was also no evidence to suggest that the funds collected for the Parishad were used for organizing the Koregaon Bhima agitation on January 1, 2018. The names of the communities did not figure in the FIR lodged with the Vishrambaug police and the charge sheet filed against the activists in the court, he said.The defence relied on statements of prosecution witnesses Shivdas Ghatkar, Kishore Kamble, Datta Pol and Akash Sable to show that the names of the communities did not reflect in their evidence..