The accused are members of Kabir Kala Manch, a frontal organisation of the banned terrorist organisation CPI (Maoist).

Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves, Sudha Bharadwaj, P Varavara Rao, and Gautam Navlakha, were initially put under house arrest on directions of the Supreme Court.

The five activists ---Vara Vara Rao, Sudha Bhardwaj, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves, and Gautam Navlakha--- have been under house arrest since August 29 for their alleged involvement in the violence which took place on January 1.

The Delhi High Court had on Monday freed Navlakha from house arrest, five weeks after he along with four other rights activists were arrested in connection with the Koregaon-Bhima violence in Maharashtra.

The activist was one of the five put under house arrest in connection with the violence in Koregaon-Bhima in Maharashtra.

Gautam Navlakha was arrested in connection with Bhima-Koregaon case.

The notice was issued to the Chief Secretary and Maharashtra Director General of Police Datta Padsalgikar.

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