The National Investigation Agency (NIA) branded the Indian Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL) as a frontal organisation of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), in its chargesheet in the Elgar Parishad case and said the strong role of many such outfits in furthering the Maoist agenda has come to the fore during investigation, reports The Times of India on October 22. The NIA recorded the statements of two lawyers, one of whom, also a professor at a premier educational institute, resigned from the IAPL in 2018 due to “difference in ideologies”.