Hyderabad: Left-leaning Telugu poet and writer Varavara Rao who was arrested by the Pune police for his alleged links with Maoists, reached home this morning.
The apex court had Wednesday ordered that the five human rights activists, arrested on August 28 in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence case, needn't be imprisoned and can be placed under house arrest till September 6 if need be.
"They (Pune police) brought him home at 7 in the morning by air," Rao's wife Hemalatha told PTI.
She further said the police were not allowing anyone except his daughters and sons-in-law into or out of the house.
When PTI tried to talk to Rao, she said he was not allowed to talk to the media.
Deputy commissioner of police (Central Zone) Viswa Prasad, in a message, said the Hyderabad police would be managing Rao's house arrest.
Earlier, there was confusion as to whether the local police or the Pune police would manage the writer's house arrest.
Rao was arrested from here, while activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Farreira were nabbed from Mumbai, trade union activist Sudha Bharadwaj from Faridabad in Haryana and civil liberties activist Gautam Navlakha was arrested from New Delhi.
The Maharashtra police had arrested them in connection with an FIR lodged there following an event-'Elgaar Parishad' (conclave)- held on December 31 last year that had triggered violence at Koregaon-Bhima village.
