The death of the brilliant academic, who fought for human rights, and the cases of many others underscore the urgent need for reform in how the bail provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act are interpreted. Prolonged incarceration without resolution continues to violate basic human rights
The system can lament, apportion blame, but it never interfered, never once tried to understand why a man would want to live among tribals and work for them, ignoring calls to comfort. Death was virtually delivered to Stan Swamy’s cell by the system.