Jesuit priest Stan Swamy conspired with Maoist to overthrow govt : Court

The special NIA court that refused bail to 83-year-old Jesuit priest and activist Stan Swamy within the Elgar Parishad-Maoists links case has held that clear Swamy had hatched a “serious conspiracy” with members of a banned Maoist organisation to make unrest within the country and to overthrow the govt .

Special judge DE Kothalikar, who rejected Swamy’s bail plea on Monday, said in his order, which was made available on Tuesday, that supported the fabric on record it seemed Swamy was a member of banned Maoist organisation.
The material that the court mentioned included around “140 e-mails between the applicant (Swamy) and his co-accused,” the very fact that Swamy et al. he communicated with, were mentioned as “comrades”, which Swamy had received Rs eight lakh from one comrade, Mohan, allegedly for the furtherance of Maoist activities.

“Prima facie it are often gathered that the applicant along side other members of the banned organisation hatched a significant conspiracy to make unrest within the entire country and to overpower the govt , politically and by using muscle power,” Judge Kothalikar said in his order.

“The material placed on record thus clear denote that the applicant wasn’t only the member of banned organisation CPI (Maoist) but he was completing activities further within the objective of the organisation which is nothing but to overthrow the democracy of the state ,” the order read.