Mumbai-based human rights activist and lawyer Arun Ferreira, arrested by the Pune Police, told the court on Tuesday that he was beaten up in police custody during interrogation. Ferreira has been accused of being involved in the Elgaar Parishad that triggered the violence at Koregoan Bhima in January this year.

After Special Judge Kishor Vadane rejected the anticipatory bail pleas of activist Vernon Gonsalves, Ferreira and Sudha Bharadwaj on October 26 in a Pune court, the three were arrested and produced before the court on October 27. They were remanded in police custody till November 6. The trio, on Tuesday, was remanded in judicial custody for 14 days; a hearing on Ferreira's allegations is scheduled for November 12.