<p>The Pune Police has unearthed a letter that suggests plans to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.</p>.<p>The letter was unearthed while probing Maoists links to the January 1 Koregaon-Bhima caste violence in Maharashtra.</p>.<p>"We are thinking along the lines of another Rajiv Gandhi-type incident...It sounds suicidal and there is a good chance we might fail but we feel the party must deliberate over our proposal," the letter states.</p>.<p>The letter found in Rona Wilson's house in Delhi refers to the need to have Rs 8 crore to procure M-4 rifle and four lakh rounds, and also mentions "another Rajiv Gandhi-type incident".</p>.<p><br />Former prime minister and Congress president Rajiv Gandhi was killed by an LTTE suicide bomber while campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections at Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, in May 1991.</p>.<p>This development follows the arrest of Surendra Gadling, general secretary of Indian Association of People’s Lawyers from Nagpur; Prof Shoma Sen, head of Department of English, Nagpur University; Sudhir Dhawale, editor of 'Vidrohi' from Mumbai; Rona Wilson, public relations secretary, Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CORPP), and Mahesh Raut, anti-displacement activist from Bharat Jan Andolan and former Fellow at Prime Minister’s Rural Development (PMRD) for Gadchiroli district.</p>.<p>They were arrested by the Pune Police on Tuesday in connection with the Koregaon-Bhima riots. They were produced before the court and later remanded to police custody till June 14.</p>.<p>The arrests and searches have been purportedly made under the FIR registered on January 8 at Vishram Baug Police Station in Pune with regard to organising the Elgar Parishad on December 31, 2017, by the Bhima-Koregaon Shaurya Din Prerna Abhiyan.</p>.<p>The FIR, originally registered under Section 505 (1)(b), 117 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), was made a conspiracy case in March and now has had sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) added to it.</p>
<p>The Pune Police has unearthed a letter that suggests plans to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.</p>.<p>The letter was unearthed while probing Maoists links to the January 1 Koregaon-Bhima caste violence in Maharashtra.</p>.<p>"We are thinking along the lines of another Rajiv Gandhi-type incident...It sounds suicidal and there is a good chance we might fail but we feel the party must deliberate over our proposal," the letter states.</p>.<p>The letter found in Rona Wilson's house in Delhi refers to the need to have Rs 8 crore to procure M-4 rifle and four lakh rounds, and also mentions "another Rajiv Gandhi-type incident".</p>.<p><br />Former prime minister and Congress president Rajiv Gandhi was killed by an LTTE suicide bomber while campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections at Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, in May 1991.</p>.<p>This development follows the arrest of Surendra Gadling, general secretary of Indian Association of People’s Lawyers from Nagpur; Prof Shoma Sen, head of Department of English, Nagpur University; Sudhir Dhawale, editor of 'Vidrohi' from Mumbai; Rona Wilson, public relations secretary, Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CORPP), and Mahesh Raut, anti-displacement activist from Bharat Jan Andolan and former Fellow at Prime Minister’s Rural Development (PMRD) for Gadchiroli district.</p>.<p>They were arrested by the Pune Police on Tuesday in connection with the Koregaon-Bhima riots. They were produced before the court and later remanded to police custody till June 14.</p>.<p>The arrests and searches have been purportedly made under the FIR registered on January 8 at Vishram Baug Police Station in Pune with regard to organising the Elgar Parishad on December 31, 2017, by the Bhima-Koregaon Shaurya Din Prerna Abhiyan.</p>.<p>The FIR, originally registered under Section 505 (1)(b), 117 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), was made a conspiracy case in March and now has had sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) added to it.</p>
