WILSON MOVES HC AGAINST ‘PLANTED EVIDENCE’

Activist Rona Wilson on Wednesday filed a petition in the Bombay High Court seeking dismissal of the case against him in connection with the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence. His lawyer submitted a digital forensic report from a Massachusetts-based forensic firm Arsenal Digital which mentioned that a hacker hacked Rona Wilson’s laptop and planted 10 letters right before Wilson’s arrest.

Advocate Sudeep Pasbola on behalf of Rona filed the petition and also attached a digital forensic report from a Massachusetts based forensic firm Arsenal Digital that mentioned that a hacker hacked Rona Wilson’s laptop and planted 10 letters right before Wilson’s arrest.

Advocate Pasbola had approached the Arsenal Digital to examine the electronic copy of his client’s laptop.

These are the same letters which were first used by the Pune police and later by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) as evidence to show Rona’s complicity in Bhima Koregaon case.

Relying on these letters the Pune police in the past had claimed that the arrested accused were planning to assassinate the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

On January 1, 2018, the violence at Bhima Koregaon village in Pune district left one dead and injured several others, including 10 policemen.

Violence erupted after some people, reportedly with saffron flags, pelted stones at cars heading towards the village for the commemoration of the 200 years of Bhima-Koregaon war on New Year’s Day.