Arguing for the bail of civil rights activist Arun Ferreira, his advocate Sudeep Pasbola told the Bombay HC that the material seized from Ferreira's home could show he was inspired by Marxist or leftist ideology, but was not enough to incriminate him.

Justice Sarang Kotwal has been hearing the bail pleas of Ferreira and his co-accused Sudha Bharadwaj and Vernon Gonsalves on a regular basis. Pasbola said that the books and handwritten notes were not sufficient evidence to deny him bail, the concerned books were not banned, nor was their seizure enough grounds to incriminate him in the alleged conspiracies of the CPI (Maoist).

He said further that the books and handwritten notes belonged to a colleague who died in a road accident, whose family had given them to him. Pasbola further argued that there was no evidence that he and others were creating a "war-like situation" against the government.

While arguments concluded by the applicants on their three bail pleas, the Pune police through Additional Public Prosecutor Aruna Pai will argue on the bail pleas on Oct 1.

The case of the Pune police is that an Elgar Parishad meeting held on December 31, 2017 provoked violence the next day in the village of Bhima-Koregaon. Ferreira was arrested in August last year for alleged linked with the CPI (Maoist). Bharadwaj, Gonsalves and Ferreira moved the Bombay HC after a special judge in Pune rejected their bail pleas.