Vernon Gonsalves (born 1957[1]) is a trade unionist, activist and academic,[2] and an accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence.
[4] Vernon Gonsalves is a Mangalorean Catholic and born in Byculla in South Mumbai.
[4] On 28 August 2018, Gonsalves was arrested by the Pune Police along with activists Varavara Rao, Arun Ferreira and Gautam Navlakha, and lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj.
[6] There was a controversy when the Court asked Gonsalves why he had a copy of the Leo Tolstoy's book of War and Peace, instead of Biswajit Roy's.
[10] Gonsalves was charged in around 20 cases, acquitted in 17 due to lack of evidence, discharged in one, standing trial in one and convicted in one by a Nagpur court.