New Delhi – Reports by Arsenal Consulting, a Massachusetts-based digital forensics firm reveal that malware was used to plant evidence on the laptop of Jesuit priest Father Stan Swamy to deliberately convict him alongwith several others in the Bhima Koregaon case.

Father Stan Swamy's laptop was hacked and documents were placed to incriminate him in the case. The report also states that these forged documents were included in the charge sheet by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The hacking took place from 2014 to June 11, 2019. On June 12, the Pune police took Fr. Stan Swamy's laptop into custody.

44 documents, including those circulated as Maoist letters, were implanted into the laptop. Hackers used interventions to mask the hacking process.

In August 2021, Arsenal Consulting had reported that the laptops of Rona Wilson and Surendra Gadling were hacked, and evidence planted. The hacking was reportedly done by the same person.

For months, Father Stan Swamy, an 84-year-old Jesuit priest who was arrested under U.A.P.A, claimed his innocence in courts and pleaded for medical care, but Indian authorities denied him bail. Suffering from Parkinson’s disease, he died at a hospital in July 2021 after spending more than eight months in jail on terrorism charges.

Father Stan Swamy, then aged 83, was the oldest person to be arrested in India for alleged links to terrorism.

Father Stan Swamy was born Stanislaus Lourduswamy on April 26, 1937 in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu. During his studies at St. Joseph's School, Tiruchirappalli, he was drawn to theology through the Jesuit priests he met.

As part of his religious studies, he came to Bihar for training and saw the hardships of the tribals. He later set aside his life to stand up for their rights.