10 Elghar Parishad accused allege Taloja Superintendent scans and saves their letters

Ten accused in the Elgar Parishad case have written a letter to home minister of Maharashtra on Thursday alleging that Taloja Central Jail's Superintendent Kaustubh Kurlekar scans and saves copies

Ten accused in the Elgar Parishad case have written a letter to home minister of Maharashtra on Thursday alleging that Taloja Central Jail's Superintendent Kaustubh Kurlekar scans and saves copies of letters written by them to their family and advocates. The letter is written by Anand Teltumbde, Gautam Navlakha, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves, Mahesh Raut, Sudhir Dhawale, Surendra Gadling, Rona Wilson, Sagar Gorkhe and Ramesh Gaichor. They say, "Mr Anand, Mr Gaichor and Mr Ferreira were served notice and accused by Superintendent Mr Kurlekar invoking powers vide of Rule 20 of Chapter 31 (Facilities to Prisoners) of the Maharashtra Jail Manual. Dr Anand for two articles, Mr Gaichor for a poem as an obituary for cultural activist and Ambedarkite Vira Saathidar and Mr Ferreira for an essay in memory of Father Stan Swamy. They were intimated that what they wrote was 'objectional, creating doubts relating to the investigation of Bhima Koregaon offences and propagating naxal ideology.'"