Anticipating release on medical bail, ailing octogenarian Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist Father Stan Lourduswamy - an arrested accused in the Koregaon-Bhima case - passed away at a private hospital at Mumbai on Monday afternoon. He was 84. There was a massive outpour of grief and sympathy on social media for Father Swamy and condemnation of the government by various groups and Left leaders, as the news broke out.
Father Stan Swamy, a priest and human rights activist who spent fifty years fighting for the rights of the tribal community in the state of Jharkhand, was arrested in October 2020, charged under draconian terrorism laws and held in judicial custody.
Jailed near Mumbai since October, Stan Swamy spent the last few months of his life fighting legal battles for even the smallest of needs. In December, he was allowed a straw and a sipper in jail, which he had requested in court on account of Parkinson's disease. He had requested medical treatment and interim bail multiple times.
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