Someone like Gadling, who has spent his legal career fighting – and winning – cases for those arrested under draconian laws like TADA and UAPA?

Or Dhawale, who had to spend over three years in jail on Naxalism charges before being acquitted of all charges later ?

Or Mahesh Raut, who has been a Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellow, and whose colleagues claim he never even attended the Elgar Parishad?

Or Shoma Sen, whose husband has been arrested for Naxal links before (and acquitted) but not her?

Or Rona Wilson, who has also been working as a public relations secretary of the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners?

Because of their jobs, and the causes they have espoused (fighting for Dalit and Adivasi rights), it is no surprise that there might be links between these people and Naxals, but this does not mean that they are members of the organisation – and certainly not that they have committed any terrorist acts.