[Marxistindia] Damning Indictment

[news from the cpi(m)]

December 14, 2022

Press Statement

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued  
the following statement:
Damning Indictment

The new report released by an internationally reputed digital forensic  
analysis company (Arsenal Consulting) that fake documents later used  
as evidence of his “anti-national” were planted in the computer of  
Father Stan Swamy between the years 2017 to 2019. Father Stan was  
under surveillance from 2014. Forty files were placed in his computer  
during this period which he had never accessed according to the  
forensic report. Even more shocking is that the forensic evidence  
inquiry released in the public domain indicates that the hackers had  
prior knowledge of the impending arrest of Stan Swamy by the Pune  
police. Just a day before, they tried to erase traces of their  
activities. Worst of all Stan Swamy was refused bail, he was denied  
minimum facilities, his death in custody was nothing short of murder.  
He died in custody accused of a crime he never committed.

This is the fifth such report following forensic inquiry of the  
devices of other accused which clearly show a pattern of hacking and  
placing fake files in the computers of those targeted, files which the  
accused had no idea about nor did they ever access those files as  
proved by the forensic inquiry. Yet it is these fake files which  
constitute the main so-called evidence against all the accused in the  
Bhima Koregaon case, most of whom have been locked up under the  
draconian provisions of the UAPA.

It is highly condemnable that the NIA has refused to acknowledge this  
evidence leave alone institute its own inquiry. It is equally  
condemnable that the Central Government which has jurisdiction over  
the NIA has also refused to acknowledge these reports.

The latest report along with the earlier ones is a damning indictment  
of this government and the modus operandi of the NIA to target and to  
imprison those against whom they have no evidence except that which  
they have manufactured themselves. Today it is the Bhima Koregaon  
detainees who were targeted by this dangerous technology and malware.  
Tomorrow any opponent of this regime can be similarly targeted.

The CPI(M) demands that all the Bhima Koregaon accused be immediately  
released from jail; NIA should not deny their bail applications and or  
discharge appeals; an expert, fair re-examination taking into account  
the forensic evidence available should be made in a timebound framework.





(Muralidharan)
For CPI(M) Central Committee Office