After Pune District Special Judge Kishor Vadane, on Friday, rejected the anticipatory bail pleas of three activists under house arrest for their involvement in the banned CPI (Maoist) party and in the Elgaar Parishad that triggered the violence at Koregoan Bhima earlier this year, police arrested two of them - Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira. Sudha Bharadwaj will be arrested today.

Judge Vadane, while rejecting the bail plea, observed that "the alleged act of the accused may transcend the frontiers of the locality and include anti-national activities which pose a challenge to the very integrity and sovereignty of the country and its democratic policy".