The 6th of this month will decide whether the intellectuals, lawyers and activists who were arrested and then put under house arrest following the Supreme Court order, get bail or cool their heels in prison as undertrials. The outcry the police action evoked in the last week of August, surpassed the reaction that the arrests of some activists, also linked to the Maoist movement, in the first week of June this year, had generated.

The Pune police were reluctant to say anything concrete on the case the day the activists were arrested, but selective material was leaked without authentication. Then at a press conference no questions were taken, only a statement was read out. When the public pressure threatened to explode the safety valve of the system called government, the senior police officials raced against each other to make statements. A day after the Pune police chief's press meet, senior cops at the Maharashtra police headquarters in Mumbai, reiterated that the case was strong enough. A lot of questions are being raised over the manner in which the arrests were executed and the charge of heralding an anti-fascist movement.