NIA Files Chargesheet Against Activists Stan Swamy, Teltumbde, 6 Others in Bhima Koregaon case

The NIA on Friday filed a charge-sheet against eight people, including social activist Gautam Navlakha, Delhi University associate professor Hany Babu and tribal leader Father Stan Swamy, for their alleged involvement in inciting a mob to violence in Bhima Koregaon on January 1, 2018, officials said.

NIA spokesperson and Deputy Inspector General of Police in the agency Sonia Narang said the charge-sheet was submitted before a designated court here. The eight people were arrested during the course of the investigation.

The NIA had captured Father Stan Swamy, a lobbyist who works with tribals. He was gotten from his home in Jharkhand prior



toward the beginning of the day of October 9. 

The case identifies with the savagery on January 1, 2018, in which one individual was murdered and a few harmed after conflicts at the 200th-commemoration festivities of the Battle of Koregaon close to Pune.

The others named in the charge-sheet are Goa Institute of Management professor Anand Teltumbde, and Jyoti Jagtap, Sagar Gorkhe and Ramesh Gaichor, activists of the Bhima Koregaon Shaurya Din Prerna Abhiyaan group.

The NIA has also named Milind Teltumde as accused. He is absconding.

NIA took over the case on January 24 this year.