Elgar Parishad  

The Bombay high court has denied bail to Elgar Parishad accused Sudha Bharadwaj 
 

In the first major display of cracks developing in the NCP-Shiva Sena ranks, senior leader Sharad Pawar has expressed his unhappiness over CM Uddhav Thackeray consenting to NIA taking over the investigation of the Elgar Parishad case 

Bombay high Court judge had taken exception to the presence of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace in the house of activist Vernon Gonsalves arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case. However, the book that the judge queried about was not the venerable Russian writer's classic, but totally another book --- War and Peace in Junglemahal: People, State and Maoists by Biswajit Roy.

Varavara Rao was accused of having a nexus with top fugitive Maoist operatives and of being actively involved in the procurement of arms and ammunition, recruitment of students and funding of Maoist activities