ACTIVIST Tushar Bhattacharya, 62, was arrested on Monday by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Surat in Gujarat for “seditious activities” (section 124 of the IPC). Sources from the ATS said, “He was arrested in Raipur while he was travelling back to Nagpur from Kolkata in connection with a case of 2010.”
Bhattacharya’s wife and fellow activist Shoma Sen said, “He had gone to meet his sister in Kolkata and was returning. I was trying his phone since 6 am but it was not reachable. So, we went to receive him at the railway station but he wasn’t there. Later, he called up to say that he was at Nagpur airport under arrest from Surat police and was being taken to Gujarat.”