Activist Rona Wilson on Wednesday moved the Bombay High Court seeking the formation of a Special Investigation Team to inquire into the planting of fabricated documents in his computer over a course of about 22 months. Wilson was the first person to be arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case.
According to a report from Arsenal Consulting, a Massachusetts-based digital forensics firm, key evidence against activists and intellectuals, who have been arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case, was planted using a malware on a laptop seized by the police.
In his petition, Wilson has sought his immediate release and a stay on proceedings related to the arrest of the activists in the case.
It added:
“It is therefore just and necessary, that this Hon’ble Court does enquire into the fraud committed on the Petitioner [Wilson] in order to frame him and his co-accused with the aim of keeping them behind bars for an indefinite period of time. The said planting and framing amounts to false…