Digital forensic evidence links members of the Pune City Police to hackers found to have planted evidence on the computers of several members of the Bhima Koregaon 16.
According to Arsenal, Swamy never touched the files himself. After his devices were seized by Pune City Police, those files were among the digital evidence used to charge him and the other Bhima Koregaon 16 defendants with terrorism as well as inciting a riot in 2018 that led to two deaths.
On Swamy's computer, however, Arsenal also found something new: The hackers seem to have begun what Arsenal calls "antiforensics"—a clean-up operation–on June 11, 2019, deleting files that revealed its access to Swamy's machine in an apparent attempt to cover their tracks, just a day before Pune Police seized Swamy's computer on June 12 of that year.
That cleanup is one of several signs that the hackers who targeted members of the Bhima Koregaon 16 may well have been working in league with the Pune City Police who arrested many of the defendants.
Of the 16 Bhima Koregaon defendants, 11 remain in jail. Three have been released on bail, and one has been confined to house arrest. But the case of Stan Swamy, the oldest of the defendants and the only one to die in detention, has taken perhaps the biggest spotlight: Human rights organizations and the US State Department have spoken out against Swamy's imprisonment, and he was posthumously awarded the Martin Ennals Award, sometimes described as the Nobel Prize for human rights defenders.
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