The Pune Police on Tuesday conducted raids as part of the probe into the violence at Maharashtra's Bhima Koregaon village after an event hosted in Pune last year. The residences of prominent activists across the country, Left-wing activist and poet Varavara Rao in Hyderabad, activists Vernon Gonzalves and Arun Ferreira in Mumbai, trade union activist Sudha Bhardwaj in Chhattisgarh, Father Stan Swamy from Ranchi and civil liberties activist Gautam Navalakha, who lives in Delhi were searched for their suspected Maoist links. After Activist Sudha Bharadwaj's home was raided early on Tuesday morning, she was taken into police custody and is being held at the Surajkund police station in Haryana. The Swargate police station in Pune had pursued the arrest of Bharadwaj. Also her email IDs and social media accounts access were reportedly requested by the police. Varavara Rao, another activist from Hyderabad, who was under house arrest for the last one and a half months, was also taken from his home. He was produced at the Nampally court in Hyderabad after the completion of the mandatory medical checkup at the Gandhi Hospital. Gautam Navlakha, a journalist and human rights activist was also detained under the same sections of the IPC as Bharadwaj. For involvement with the organisation of Elgaar Parishad in Pune on 31 December, 2017 and his alleged Maoist links, Navlakha's home was also raided. A team of Pune Police raided the houses of activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira in Mumbai. Gonsalves had been earlier accused for having links to banned Naxalite outfits, was labelled as an ex-central committee member and former secretary of Maharashtra State Rajya Committee of the Naxalites. He had already spent six years in prison between 2007 and 2013, when he was detained by the Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad from his Mumbai residence in August 2017. He was convicted by a Mumbai court under various sections of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Arms Act in 2007. Maharashtra Police team arrived at Father Stan Swamy's, house in Ranchi at 6 am and presented an official letter in Marathi informing him of the raid to which he refused to sign it translation, so the police arranged for a provision of having explained the letter to him sentence by sentence. They seized Swamy's laptop, mobile phones, a press release about the Khunti rape case, among other items. Swamy is a tribal rights activist and has been supporting the Pathalgadi movement in Jharkhand since its inception. Pune Police team which raided the home of Father Swamy confiscated 21 CDs, two SIM cards, a laptop, camera, a list of tribal freedom fighters from Jharkhand and a press release during the raid. A letter from Shivaji Pawar, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Swargate, Pune Police, confirmed that a raid had been ordered at Swamy's house in Ranchi. The house in Goa of Anand Teltumbde, who is the brother of Milind Teltumbde and relative of Prakash Ambedkar was also raided.