A day after Bombay High Court asked the Bhima Koregaon case accused Vernon Gonsalves to explain why he kept “objectionable material” like a copy of ‘War and Peace’, the court clarified that he did not mean Leo Tolstoy’s classic, but a book by Biswajit Roy.

Expressing anguish over “misinterpretation of questions”, Justice Sarang Kotwal on Thursday, 29 August, added that he did not mean to suggest that all the books seized by Pune police in the case were incriminating.