Bhima-Koregaon Case: US-based forensic firm on Tuesday claimed that digital evidence used to arrest Jesuit priest Father Stan Swamy in the Bhima-Koregaon case was “planted” on his computer’s hard drive, similar to two other cases involving human rights defenders Rona Wilson and Surendra Gadling.
Swamy, 84, who was an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, died in July 2021, while waiting for interim bail on medical grounds. An examination of an electronic copy of his computer by Arsenal Consulting, a Massachusetts-based digital forensics firm, concluded that a hacker infiltrated his device and “planted” evidence, The Washington Post reported, citing a new report by the company.
Earlier this week, a US-based forensics company claimed that digital evidence used to detain Jesuit priest Father Stan Swamy in the Bhima-Koregaon case had been “planted” on his computer’s hard drive, just like it had been in the cases of Rona Wilson and Surendra Gadling.
Swamy, 84, who was an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case passed away in July 2021 while he was awaiting medically-based interim bail.
Arsenal Consulting, a Massachusetts-based digital forensics company, examined an electronic duplicate of his computer and came to the conclusion that a hacker had compromised it and “planted” material, according to a recent report by the company, which was cited by The Washington Post.
The firm noted in its study that this comes after earlier revelations that showed that digital evidence was planted on the devices of other human rights campaigners Rona Wilson and Surendra Gadling.
“Over 50 files were created on Swamy’s hard drive, including incriminating documents that fabricated links between him and the Maoist insurgency,” the report said.
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“The final incriminating document was planted on his computer on June 5, 2019, a week before the raid on Swamy,” the report said.
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Although experts questioned the veracity of the documents, it continued, it was on the basis of these documents that he was initially detained in the Bhima Koregaon case.
The Elgar case concerns allegedly inciting remarks made during the “Elgar Parishad” gathering in Pune on December 31, 2017, which, according to the police, led to violence the following day near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial outside of the city.
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