Elgaar Parishad: Police opposes bail pleas, claims Rona Wilson has links to G N Saibaba

Pune | Tuesday | 9th April, 2019

Summary:

The complaint had claimed that Elgaar Parishad was organised, and funded, by people linked to banned naxalite groups. The police claims that speeches made at the Elgaar Parishad had triggered violence on January 1, 2018, the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Bhima Koregaon. Wilson and the four others, who have been kept in Yerawada jail, have filed their bail applications in the local court. While opposing their bail, the Pune police, through its lawyer Ujjwala Pawar, told the court that it had found that Wilson held a joint bank account with Saibaba. AdvertisingWilson, a Delhi-based activist, was arrested along with four others, on June 6 last year in connection with a case registered against the organisation of Elgaar Parishad, an evening event, in Pune on December 31, 2017..