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Government made Stan Swamy’s life more difficult through adverse use of legal means: Amartya Sen #IndiaNEWS
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has said that the Narendra Modi government had made life of tribal rights activist Stan Swamy more difficult in custody.“Stan Swamy was a philanthropist, he was working tirelessly for helping people,� Sen said in an interview with The Indian Express that was published on Monday. “The government, instead of providing him protection, made his life more precarious, more difficult, through adverse use of legal means. One result of it was that he was in a much more fragile state than he should have been.�Swamy, who suffered from Parkinson’s disease and also contracted the coronavirus infection while in prison in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence case, died in a Mumbai hospital on July 5. He was repeatedly denied bail despite his deteriorating health condition. Swamy was the oldest of a dozen people, most of them academics and human rights activists, jailed under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act in the case without any reliable evidence.On May 21, the 84-year-old Jesuit priest had urged the Bombay High Court that he be allowed to go back to Ranchi, his home town, as his condition had deteriorated to a point that he could not even do basic tasks like eating and bathing by himself. He was put on ventilator support after suffering a cardiac...Read more

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