'Urban Naxals' plot or ploy?

The Maharashtra Police yesterday arrested five Left-wing activists and conducted raids in the houses of several others as part of a probe into an event held in Pune last year.

The event had allegedly triggered violence between Dalits and upper caste groups at Koregaon Bhima village. And the Supreme Court today directed that the five human rights activists arrested should be kept under house arrest until the next date of hearing on September 6.