PUCL condemns raid, demands end to abuse

MUMBAI: People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) strongly condemned the early morning raid by Maharashtra–Pune police at the residence of 83-year-old Father Stan Swamy at Bagaicha Campus, Namkum, Ranchi, Jharkhand. The Maharashtra police allegedly conducted the raid and search without obtaining judicial search warrant and seized his computer’s hard disk, internet modem and other storage devices and forced him to give his gmail and Facebook passwords. The objective is thus very clear to intimidate, scare and frighten all others – rights activists, democratically-minded groups and concerned citizens – from extending any type of support to Stan Swamy and others.