Late Jesuit priest Father Stan Swamy wrote a slim book, I Am Not A Silent Spectator, before he was arrested on October 8, 2020. In the book, Stan details the questions sleuths from the National Investigation Agency asked him over 15 hours of interrogation spread over five days—and the answers he gave. He scoffed at the documents they said had been extracted from his computer, insisting these were “interpolations”. These fabricated documents became the basis for arresting him under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon case and tossing him into prison.

Stan died on July 5, 2021, in a Mumbai hospital, where he was shifted after a stiff court battle. The spirit of Stan should now be at peace, with the recent disclosure that his computer was subjected to sustained malware attack for planting incriminating documents on it. His honour has been posthumously vindicated.