Varavara Rao  

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

Activist and Maoist sympathiser P Varavara Rao taken into custody on the allegation of plotting to kill PM Modi. The Pune police took him into custody on Saturday at 9.15 PM.      
 

The five activists -- Varavara Rao, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves, Sudha Bharadwaj and Gautam Navlakha-- are under arrest at their respective homes since August 29
 

Maoist ideologue Varavara Rao allegedly said that the BJP's ascent to power in 15 states had posed a tremendous challenge to Maoist activities and the party needed to put a brake on Modi's progress

Diaries, laptops and incriminating journals have been seized as evidence in the raids conducted at the known locations of Maoist ideologues and sympathisers like Varavara rao, Rona Wilson, Gautam Navlakha, Sudha Bhardwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Susan Abrahams and others.