The accused have been charged in the draft under the following sections of the Indian Penal Code:
They have also been accused of committing offences under multiple sections of the stringent UAPA.
WHAT ELSE IS THE NIA ALLEGING?
The draft charges allege that the accused are members of the banned CPI (Maoist) and its ‘front organisations’, “whose main object is to establish Janata Sarkar i.e. people’s Government via revolution supported by a commitment to protracted Armed struggle to undermine and to seize power from the State”.
The NIA has claimed that the Elgar Parishad event in Pune on 31 December 2017 was organised “to exploit the communal sentiments of Dalit and other classes across the state and provoked them in the name of caste to create violence, instability, and chaos in Pune at various places, including Bhima Koregaon, and in the state of Maharashtra”.
Further, they alleged that the accused:
“…abetted and assisted in the commission of Unlawful Activities with intent to…