One of son in law, Satyanarayana is the professor of English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), and the other son in law, KV Kurmanath is a senior journalist in Hyderabad.

Hyderabad:National Investigation Agency (NIA) of Mumbai unit investigating the Bhima Koregaon case has summoned revolutionary writer P Varavara Rao’s son-laws K. Satyanarayana and KV Kurmanath, both from Hyderabad, to appear before the NIA in Mumbai unit.

P Varavara Rao was arrested in 2018 in Bhima Koregaon Case.

One of son in law, Satyanarayana is the professor of English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), and the other son in law, KV Kurmanath is a senior journalist in Hyderabad.

K. Satyanarayana said, “I wish to share the distressing news that the NIA summoned my co-brother Kurnamath and me to appear before it as a witness,”

“My flat was raided by the Pune police in August 2018 under the pretext of collecting evidence against my father-in-law Rao. I stated then that I was in no way connected to the Bhima Koregaon case,”  

“The fact of Varavara Rao being my father-in-law was used to raid my house and cause mental agony,”

“The NIA notice adds to our family distress at a time when Varavara Rao’s heath condition is not very good, and the pandemic is fast spreading in Mumbai. I was summoned to Mumbai in these terrible times,” Satyanarayana further said.

The NIA summoned both K. Satyanarayana and KV Kurnamath as witnesses under Sections 160 and 91 of the CrPc.

Bhima Koregaon Case

Violence broke out between Dalits and Marathas in the village of Bhima Koregaon near Pune on January 1, 2018. This came a day after an event in Pune called the Elgar Parishad was organized to commemorate the Battle of Bhima Koregaon in 1818 in which the Dalit Mahar soldiers fighting for the British Army defeated the Brahmin Peshwa rulers of the Maratha empire. One person died in violence during a bandh called by Dalit outfits on January 2.

The investigating agency named 11 of the 23 accused in the FIR, including activists Sudhir Dhawale, Shoma Sen, Mahesh Raut, Rona Wilson, Surendra Gadling, Varavara Rao, Sudha Bharadwaj, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves, Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha. Except Teltumbde and Navlakha, the others were arrested by Pune Police in June and August 2018 in connection with the violence.

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