A special court here has denied bail to three persons accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, saying that the material on record suggests that the trio, along with other members of the CPI (Maoist), a banned organisation, hatched a "serious conspiracy" to create unrest in the country and to overthrow the Modi government.

A letter placed on record prima facie speaks that the CPI (Maoist) was bent upon ending the "Modi­ raj" and that they were also thinking of another incident like the death of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, by targeting the road shows of PM Narendra Modi, the court said. The three accused, Sagar Gorkhe, Ramesh Gaichor and Jyoti Jagtap, all members of the Kabir Kala Manch, were denied bail by the special NIA court judge D E Kothalikar on Monday. The detailed order was made available on Thursday.