The prosecution said Bharadwaj is an active member of CPI (Maoist) and was involved in raising funds for them. It said she had been recruiting students from JNU and TISS and sending them to interior areas, and her custody was required to know where those students were sent. The prosecution also mentioned that Bharadwaj was friendly with Kashmiri separatists, though the thrust of their argument revolved around her alleged CPI (Maoist) connections and the recruitment of students.