Swamy was arrested on October 8, 2020 and chargesheeted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for his alleged role in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence and links to the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
The NIA charge-sheet named eight people, including Father Stan Swamy, social activist Gautam Navlakha and Delhi University associate professor Hany Babu, for their alleged involvement in inciting a mob to violence in Bhima Koregaon on January 1, 2018.
The NIA alleged that Swamy was a member of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) & was involved in a conspiracy to instigate caste violence in the Bhima Koregaon.
In March, 2021, an NIA Court in Mumbai rejected his bail plea. His bail plea was pending since November 2020.
The Court observed that Father Swamy was a member of an organisation that “hatched a serious conspiracy to create unrest in the entire country & to overpower the government.”
“The material placed on record thus prima facie denotes that the applicant was not only the member of….
..banned organisation Communist Party of India (Maoist), he was carrying out activities further in the objective of the organisation which is nothing but to overthrow the democracy of the nation," special judge DE Kothalikar said while rejecting the bail, acc to a report in HT.
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