Vernon Gonsalves  

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.

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.