Three activists sent back home from Pune, kept under house arrest

Pune police sent the three Left-wing activists, arrested for their alleged links with Maoists, to their homes, as per a directive of the Supreme Court.

Arrangements were made to send the three suspects to their respective cities late last night and all of them have reached their homes, said Pune's Assistant Commissioner of Police Shivaji Pawar, who is the investigation officer in the case.

The three activists will be kept under "house arrest", he said.

"We have our own police officers and personnel along with the local police from the respective cities, who will be deployed at their residences," he added.

Left leaning Telugu poet and writer Varavara Rao reached home in Hyderabad this morning, while activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, were sent to Mumbai by road, a police official said today.

Gonsalves reached his home in Mumbai's Andheri suburb around 7.30 am.

His wife, advocate Susan Abraham, said, "Vernon reached home safely and we welcomed him."