A new report by an American forensic firm shows that multiple incriminating documents were planted in the computer of Father Stan Swamy, the 83-year-old activist-priest who was arrested for alleged terror links in 2020 and who died in custody a year later,
The report blasts a hole in the National Investigation Agency (NIA)’s charges against Stan Swamy, which centre around alleged electronic correspondence between the priest and supposed Maoist leaders to make the case that he was part of an explosive Naxal conspiracy.
In its findings, Arsenal Consulting, a Boston-based forensic outfit hired by Swamy’s lawyers, says close to 44 documents, including the so-called Maoist letters, were planted by an unknown cyber attacker who gained access to Swamy’s computer over an extended period of five years, starting from 2014 to the point when he was raided in 2019.
