The alleged evidence used to incarcerate 16 people in the Bhima Koregaon case was “likely to have been implanted remotely through a hacker-for-hire mercenary gang infrastructure that has clients all over the world, but whose epicentre is in India,” according to claims made in a new book.
In her book, The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon And The Search For Democracy In India, London School of Economics anthropology professor Alpa Shah draws from interviews with cyber security analysts and researchers to allege that the hacker gang was connected to a Pune police officer. In the book, she elaborates on the role of the police in hacking into the computers of at least three of the accused at Bhima Koregaon, and planting the emails and files that were used to implicate them.
Ms. Shah says that the 16 arrests were used to divert attention away from the Hindutva instigators of a communal riot targeting Dalits, which took place on January 1, 2018 at Bhima Koregaon in Maharashtra.
‘Hackers linked to police’
As reported earlier by The Hindu in December 2022, U.S.-based digital forensics firm Arsenal Consulting had found that the computers belonging to the late Father Stan Swamy, and his co-accused Rona Wilson and Surendra Gadling in the Bhima Koregaon caste violence case, were compromised by the same attacker. On February 10, 2021, the same consultancy had found that a hacker had controlled Mr. Wilson’s computer for a period of 22 months to plant documents, which led to an investigation that supposedly unravelled a Communist Party of India (Maoist) conspiracy to eliminate Prime Minister Narendra Modi “in another Raji ..
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