
Thirty-year-old Arun
Ferreira hails from a middle-class Catholic family in Bandra, Mumbai. He became
a political activist in his college days, active in Naxalite-affected eastern
Maharashtra and during the Khairlanji killings. On May 8, 2007, he was arrested
as he got off the train at Nagpur railway station from Mumbai.The police
charged him under Sections 10, 13, 18 and 20 of the Unlawful Activities
Prevention Act. In a few months, eight
more cases were slapped against him, including two
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