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(ii) A Zero(0) FIR was registered on 02.01.2018 at Pimpri Chinchwad Police Station, Pune by an eye-witness, Ms. Anita Salve under various provisions of IPC, Arms Act,1959, Maharashtra Police Act, 1951 and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Previsions of Atrocities) Act, 1989) (for short "SC & ST Act") alleging involvement of Sambhaji Bhide, Milind Ekbote and their followers for the attack and violence. A State wide bandh was also called by several Dalit, OBC, Maratha and Muslim organisations against the attacks across Maharashtra State thereafter.

(i) In paragraph No.17.24 it is charged that Appellant had attended a meet organised by RDF at Hyderabad in 2012 and vehemently espoused the cause of reinvention of Dalit Militancy as well revolutionary resurgence under the flag of CPI(M). That RDF is a banned organisation in the State of Andhra Pradesh for its work in furtherance of the CPI(M) agenda;
(ii) paragraph No.17.25 states that the Appellant, working in Goa Institute of Management took active participation in Elgar Parishad Program;

6. Mr. Desai would submit that Appellant is a highly educated academician, author and social scientist who has received may accolades for his works. He has served in the Corporate world and pursuant to his retirement is engaged in academic work with various Institutions. He submitted that Appellant's principal activity is exhibited through his writings on 'Dalits' and the 'Social Structure' of the Society at large.

6.1. That Appellant is 73 years old today. He holds a degree of Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from VNIT, Nagpur; MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; Doctorate in Management from the University of Mumbai in Cybernetic Modelling for Public Systems and Doctorate of Literature (Honorary) conferred by Karnataka State University, Mysore. He has worked as Executive Director of Bharat Petroleum and Managing Director and CEO of Petronet India Limited until 2010. Thereafter he joined Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur as Professor of Cri Appeal 676 of 2021.doc Management until 2016. He has authored 26 books published nationally and internationally and pioneered a theoretical critique on Neoliberal Globalization vis-a-vis Dalits and other oppressed masses. He has widely travelled across India and the world and was invited by Universities in the USA, Canada and Europe for delivering lectures on Contemporary Social, Economic and Political issues in academics. He has contributed his writings extensively to leading news papers, magazines and booklets. He has participated in numerous fact findings teams over the last three decades which have produced widely acclaimed reports and issues such as Tsunami Rehabilitation efforts, Caste Atrocities, Communal Conflagration etc. He has worked on the editorial boards of Samaj Prabodhan Patrika, Vidrohi and many such other progressive publications and contributes widely to other progressive journals like Economic and Political Weekly, Mainstream, Frontier and Seminar. He is recipient of several prestigious awards and recognition from reputed Public Institutions / Foundations across the country. He was the President of the last Vichar Vedh Sammelan, a prestigious Forum for Progressive Intellectuals in Maharashtra in 2007. At the time of his arrest he was working in the Goa Institute of Management, Goa as a Senior Professor. He suffers from a number of chronic ailments and age infirmities and was under treatment for Chronic Bronchial Asthma, Cervical Spondylitis, Supraspinatus Tendiriosis and Prostatomegaly at the time of arrest and is under Cri Appeal 676 of 2021.doc regular medication for control of hypertension or depression. The medical record of Appellant being part of the second supplementary chargesheet are not in dispute.

18. The material relied by the NIA against the Appellant for his alleged role in the present crime is as under:-

18.1. 1st document:- Letter at page No.1 of NIA's compilation is addressed by one Prakash to Comrade Anand. This letter states that the Central Committee (CC) is pleased with the progress that (Comrade Anand) has made on the Dalit campaign and it calls upon to explore more opportunities to propagate the issue on the international front. It states that the CC has agreed to allocate additional funds (10L yearly) to organise International Seminars and lectures on Dalit issues. That CC has sent funds for (Comrade Anand's) upcoming (9-10 April) Human Rights convention in Paris. It calls upon for co-