{
 "no": 14,
 "id": "case-14",
 "sk": 20210705,
 "year": 2021,
 "date": "05 Jul 2021",
 "cat": "Rights and dissent",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "Stan Swamy. An 84-year-old dies an undertrial",
 "stamp": "Custodial death. Bail refused to the end.",
 "human": {
  "v": "An <b>84-year-old</b> priest and tribal-rights activist, dead in custody, never tried, never convicted",
  "est": false
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "A chilling message to every ageing or ailing activist facing the UAPA",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "Father Stan Swamy, jailed in the Bhima Koregaon case under the anti-terror UAPA, was denied bail and, at first, even a straw and sipper cup to drink with, and died in custody as an undertrial.",
 "dodge": "The state opposed his bail even as his body gave out. No one answered for the death of an octogenarian held for months without trial under a law whose bail bar is almost impossible to clear. This was punishment by process, with the process itself as the sentence.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Amit Shah",
   "r": "Home Minister (NIA)"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "Agencies maintained the case was a grave national-security matter that followed due legal process.",
 "alt": "Humane bail for the old and the sick, a workable UAPA bail standard, and accountability for deaths of undertrials in state custody.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "Stan Swamy dies awaiting medical bail, July 2021",
   "url": "https://indianexpress.com/article/india/stan-swamy-dead-elgar-parishad-case-7389891/",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260311070110/https://indianexpress.com/article/india/stan-swamy-dead-elgar-parishad-case-7389891/"
  },
  {
   "label": "SC bail judgment, Bhima Koregaon, 28 July 2023",
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/97883907/",
   "tier": 1,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20251104232344/https://indiankanoon.org/doc/97883907/"
  }
 ],
 "estimates": {
  "deaths": 1
 },
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-14/"
}