Evidence found on a second Indian activist’s computer was planted, report says
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Naxalite's are popular for various reasons. . they are popular in telengana because of oppression by muslims. . they are popular in bihar because of cate based oppression. . they are popular in andhra because of exploitation by landlords. . also they are mainly dependent on forest area for shelter.
Yeah No. I am from Telangana.
They are popular here because most of the land in not fertile enough and thus, there is poverty and general lack of development, compared to other parts of the state. Also, the workforce does not migrate much to other parts of the world for work.
It's not a coincidence that large areas of Bihar have seen reduced Naxalism, because their labor and workers have moved across India in search of jobs.
You will not find such thing happening in Odisha or Telangana.
I am from Telangana. My grandfather was a card carrying Communist who was jailed by the Nizam's government for seditious activities.
Any pretense of Muslim hegemony ended in Hyderabad state after Operation Polo. That was 72 years ago. I have no idea what you're talking about.
What kind of attachment? These articles tend to concentrate on trivia while omitting the actual attack.
Amnesty International also has an article with a lot of technical detail: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2020/06/india-hum...
Scroll down to "Variant 1" for a pretty detailed answer to your question.
During 1940-1990s Moaists did an phenomenal job in fighting for oppressed, they were solely responsible for minimum wage enforcement, stopping the exploitation of tribals.
They fought off razakars with armed guerilla groups and saved innocent women from getting raped and mutilated.
Post 1990s, The land reforms, abolition of feudal landlord system, employment creation actually solved most of the problems the poor were facing. Migration of people to urban areas increased. Thus, The maoists lost their purpose, and started searching for monsters to fight.
Post 1990, maoists are bunch of thugs living in forests doing contract killings in their free time. They claim to fight for poor, but they oppose anything that bring out poor tribal people out of their poverty. In the last 10 years there were hunderds of incidents of maoists killing contractors laying roads to remote villages fearing the tribals will be out of their grip.
Hence I have zero sympathies for these 'activists' aka hired thugs.
This is a weird derail, since the point of the posted article is that the evidence implicating the accused in Maoist sympathies was illegally planted.
Begin the story be expressing deep familiarity with a situation they barely understand. Pretend to be neutral in the first half. Move on to attack a phantom target in the next half. These are variously Maoists, muslims, "rich" farmers, Sikhs, greta thunberg, forced religious conversions etc.
In this particular case pretend that the fabricated evidence linking social workers to Maoists is real and bury the lede in final sentence.
Read about one of the activists accused here https://www.firstpost.com/india/portrait-of-an-old-man-as-a-...
What? You honestly believe that trying to incriminate activists by planting fake evidence of assassination plots and associations with maoist groups is unconvincing and not a valid reason?
I mean, not so long ago India persecuted an activist who helped Greta Thunberg to the extent of arresting and accusing her of sedition just because the girl helped edit an online document that Greta Thunberg promoted.
https://www.reuters.com/article/india-farmers-protests-idUSK...
> They are just trying to disprove the authenticity of electronic documents found on the computer of the accused.
There was no "trying". They found evidence that emails with malware were targeted at the accused activists, and they found evidence that said malware was used to plant evidence. Also, the "smoking gun" files were sloppily planted. I mean, the article states that incriminating docs were dropped on the windows folder without even having metadata showing they were ever accessed or opened in the computer.
It wasn't just another document; it was linked with the planning and execution of violence that happened on 26 January Republic day in the capital (New Delhi) wherein the national symbols like Red Fort were invaded and damaged. Obviously police acted on the toolkit document and if not enough evidence were found, she'll be out of the trouble. btw, while working on the document her WhatsApp messages with Gretta also showed that she knew that she could get into trouble.
>> Disha (9:35 pm): Ok can you not tweet the toolkit at all..can we just not say anything at all for a while? I am gonna talk to lawyers. I am sorry but our names are on it and we can literally get UAPA against us.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/do-not-tweet-toolkit-o...
> There was no "trying". They found evidence that emails with malware were targeted at the accused activists, and they found evidence that said malware was used to plant evidence.
Whatever they've found needs to be proven in court before it can be considered as evidence. Until then, as per the rule of law, it's just an opinion of the defendant.
No, not really. That's a very convenient story but an outright fabrication. Greta Thunber's document clearly did not laid out any plot. Greta's doc provide suggestions on how to protest the upcoming agriculture reform law, and the persecuted activist was jailed for editing two lines.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56068522
Moreover, the activist was arrested and accused of "wage economic, social, cultural and regional war against India", which quite clearly screams of the doingd of a fascist regime dedicated to oppress their citizens if they propose any form of criticism of the ruling regime.
> btw, while working on the document her WhatsApp messages with Gretta also showed that she knew that she could get into trouble.
The lack of self-awareness and desperation in your comment is very telling. I mean, of course she was concerned she could be persecuted: India's ruling regime is so oppressive that goes to the extent of charging people who edit two lines of a doc with sedition and waging war on India.
It's a fact that the document had a plan for 26 January and it's also a fact that violence at a large scale took place that day in the capital. It's a sufficient ground for the police to pursue the people involved to investigate the links between both.
> The lack of self-awareness and desperation in your comment is very telling.
Injecting ad hominem in your arguments weakens your position. It demonstrates that the self-awareness has taken over by insecure ego, a sign of the conditioned mind.
> screams of the doingd of a fascist regime dedicated to oppress their citizens if they propose any form of criticism of the ruling regime.
This comments certainly seem to come from a parallel reality because in the reality that I live, I come across media entities, people, leaders and even students, openly criticizing the so called current fascist regime, almost on a daily basis, even some times going to the length of threatening to harm the PM physically or break the nation. I haven't come across even a single incident where people just got into jail for criticizing the current government. Obviously when some violence happens and you're suspected to have some links, police will arrest you with charges it seems fit, but the law will take its own course and proceedings in the court shall decide eventually.
IN the fascist regime, judiciary won't have the freedom to let go the people the regime doesn't like; even in communist countries (good example is China), there's no independence of judiciary.
On the other hand, Indian judiciary takes pride in asserting its superiority wherever it can (just stating as a fact to demonstrate the independence of judiciary). I have only seen increased judicial activism during the current regime and certainly not decreasing of it.
This is a familiar dynamic, seen also with the Shining Path violence in Peru. A very well-regarded book, "The Other Path" was written by a Peruvian economist to refute the common radical narratives and lay down a pathway for development that actually provides wider benefits for the population.
Labeling social workers or human rights activists Maoists, naxals, antinationals, planting evidence and jailing them without trial for years is the regime's modus operandi.
I take it that you are fine with social workers being imprisoned via fabricated evidence.
The reason for their existence is being strained for past few decades.
It would not be far fetched to think that they will be out of the minds of the public in another 20 years.
This.
I mean, the article states that the Indian government was found planting evidence regarding assassination plots and forging associations with a maoist group, and suddenly the discussion revolves about maoist groups around the globe?
What next? Should we commend the Indian government for it's keen eye to pick fake stories to frame activists with?
Do you think faking a digital evidence is hard ?
This article is nothing but a hit piece trying to capitilize on the death news of one of the 'activist' and trying to create a sympathy wave.
I am not presuming anything. I am just giving backstory on what goes on on the ground. Anyone who claims to fight for tribals rights are either maoists or chritian missionaries.
One of the so called activist (who died last week) was a Jesuit priest.
edit: yeah, one of the activits died yesterday while being incarcerated so yeah
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/india
Planting of evidence (as this title points to) is just one of many things that are a problem when we pretend digital roots of trusts are flawless as is the case with the totally broken Aadhaar: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Although when planting false evidence in the computer I have a bad feeling that unless the victim is some kind of VIP they might have big problems even in the traditional democratic countries.
Name five democratic countries which has not done this?
San Marino - Around 33k
Lichtenstein - Around 38k
Monaco - 38k
Andorra - Around 77k
Luxembourg - 600k
With population of 77k, Andorra won't even make it in the top 300 populated cities in India. I bet it's not even in top 500.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_India_by_pop...
The population of least populated state in India is Around 600k. So Luxembourg would barely be a state in India. There are more than 70 cities with bigger population than Luxembourg in India
Honestly it's not a great way to compare democaricies which are not even the size of big Indian cities to India. But yeah. You did come up with 5 democaries that seems like legit good when it comes to Human rights. I didn't investigate about the human right violations. But with population so low I won't be surprised if there are not many.
The comment I replied back make it sounds like India is the only democracy which does this and is not a real democracy like the other democracies.
Obviously it's stupid to put activists in jail for bogus claims. And there is no justification in doing it even though other countries are doing it. It's pretty obvious to anyone with a decent IQ.
why are you bringing other countries into it? the question is on india here. india does this and there should be consequences regardless of what anyone else does or does not do
Obviously it's stupid to put activists in jail for bogus claims. And there is no justification in doing it even though other countries are doing it. It's pretty obvious to anyone with a decent IQ.
Problem is when said murderers assume self-righteous position and pontificate how bad everyone else is.
If they punish the perpetrators and fix the situation than sure, full respect. But just for the fuck of it: who for example got punished in UK for deporting and otherwise ruining lives of their own citizens (Windrush scandal)? The answer is most likely zilch. Still they teach everyone else.
And yes I agree that the scale of abuse is way smaller in the countries like the US. But they compensate by abusing citizens of the other countries by dropping democratic bombs.
The forensics lab in Pune, which is the authorized lab for examining this kind of data, and which examined the disk when the chain of custody was preserved, found no such planted evidence when the hard disk was taken in.
FTA, I gather the chain of custody goes: police seized the hard drive, made a copy, and provided the copy to the defense attorney who (correctly) engaged outside experts investigate.
State labs can (and do) make mistakes and miss evidence. State prosecutors can (and do) fail to turn over exculpatory evidence. The whole point of a trial is that we the people and the defendant don’t just have to take the state at their word. We can ship evidence off to a lab of our liking and, if the results differ from the state’s lab, ask them about it in open court.
That’s _exactly_ how the system works. The charges must be proven by the government, not merely asserted.
Besides, the NIA has proof in the form of video evidence of the seizure and procedures followed thereafter that establishes the chain of custody of the hard drive in question. Also, the laptop's contents are not the sole evidence based on which the charges have been framed.
Are the hashes of the drives examined by Arsenal the same as that examined by Pune FSL? Were they tampered with before being provided to Arsenal? Why are these reports put out without sufficient technical details establishing chain of custody?
No, not really. Amnesty International stated that the targeted activists were subjected to the malware email campaign between January and October 2029, whose aim was to deploy NetWire on the activists's computers.
Afterwards, once successfully deployed, said malware was used to plant evidence on the acrivists computers.
When?