Koregaon

Banners related to the Bhima Koregaon event held recently to mark the 200th anniversary of the Bhima Koregaon battle in Pune district were seized from two of the accused, sources said.

Crowd gathered at Maharashtra’s Pune to mark the 205th anniversary of the Bhima-Koregaon battle.

Homes in Koregaon Park and Poona Cantonment were active hubs for networking because contracts for Aden and Africa, among others, were signed in the city.

Police sources said that no accused by the name Anil Dave was found involved in Koregaon Bhima violence.

In April 2018, Puja, a student of Class XII in a local intermediate college, was found dead in a well in Koregaon Bhima, a day after she went missing from home.

NIA took over the case from the Pune Police, which is related to the violence in Bhima-Koregaon on January 1, 2018.

The violence at Bhima Koregaon occurred at the 200th anniversary celebration of a battle where untouchables -- presumably fed up with their lot in life -- allied themselves with British colonial forces to thwart the Maratha upper caste regime.

In it, he had blamed Hindutva leaders Milind Ekbote and Sambhaji Bhide for the Koregaon Bhima violence of January 1, 2018.

Ahead of the first anniversary of the clashes, elaborate security arrangements have been made in Koregaon Bhima.

Amid call for a shut-down across Maharashtra given by Dalit leaders to protest the violence during the bicentennial celebration of the Bhima-Koregaon battle, civic buses were again targeted in Mumbai today.

He said the Hindutva leader was not in Koregaon Bhima area on January 1 and was not involved in the crime.

In fact, all the troops, English and Peshwai, that fought the Battle of Koregaon retreated from the field fully convinced that they had lost and would lose even more were they to stay put.

In wake of the ongoing protests and bandh across Maharashtra against theBhima-Koregaon violence, the Shiv Sena on Wednesday alleged that someone is trying to gain political advantage by creating all such nuisance across the state.

Priyadarshi Telang, convener of the Dalit Advasi Adhikar Andolan, said, “On January 1, many persons had come from all over Maharashtra to pay tribute at Bhima Koregaon, including those from Chandrapur and Nagpur.

Pune: A bail application for advocate Surendra Gadling and Shoma Sen, accused in the Bhima Koregaon violence case was moved in Pune Sessions Court on Friday.

Sunita Kamble, ‘sarpanch’ (headman) of Bhima-Koregaon, said all the communities in the village, including Dalits and Marathas, have been living peacefully.

The arrests have not gone down well with the Bhima Koregaon Shaurya Din Prerana Abhiyan, which consists of 250 Dalit groups and activist organisations.

The Bhima Koregaon battle is important because the worst kind of oppressors were defeated.

The gram panchayat of Bhima Koregaon wrote to the local police administration seeking protection, as there was a possibility of nuisance by some fringe elements.

The next day, the Dalits heading to the Bhima Koregaon obelisk were attacked, their vehicles stoned, some of them stopped, pulled out and assaulted.