A US-based forensic firm on Tuesday said that digital evidence used to arrest Jesuit priest Father Stan Swamy in the Bhima-Koregaon case was 'planted' on his computer's hard drive, similar to two other cases involving human rights defenders Rona Wilson and Surendra Gadling.

Swamy, 84, who was an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, died in July 2021, while waiting for interim bail on medical grounds.