Govt made Stan Swamy’s life more difficult through adverse use of legal means: Amartya Sen in an interview
He was in a much more fragile state than he should have been, Sen said.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has said that the Narendra Modi government at the Centre had made the life of tribal rights activist Stan Swamy more difficult in custody. He said this in an interview with The Indian Express.
“Stan Swamy was a philanthropist, he was working tirelessly for helping people. The government, instead of providing him protection, made his life more precarious, more difficult, through adverse use of legal means. One result of it was that he was in a much more fragile state than he should have been,” Sen said in the interview.
Stan Swamy (84), died in a Mumbai hospital on July 5, in custody. He was arrested in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case. He was denied bail several times. Stan Swamy had urged the Bombay High Court – about 10 days before he died – to be allowed to go back to his home town Ranchi, and he could not go even do basic tasks such as eating and bathing. On July 4, he suffered a cardiac arrest and was put on ventilator support.
Sen also said in the interview, answering a question, “Could the judiciary have helped him more? The issue that has to be examined is whether the judiciary failed to keep the excesses of the Executive in check”.
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