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Awaiting bail, Koregaon-Bhima accused Fr. Stan Swamy dies
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Mumbai July 5 (TIWN) Ailing octogenarian tribal rights activist Fr. Stan Lourduswamy -- accused in the Koregoan-Bhima case who was awaiting bail on medical grounds -- passed away here on Monday afternoon.
Swamy’s Senior Advocate Mihir Desai informed the Bombay High Court judges Justice S.S. Shinde and Justice N J. Jamdar of the development when his bail plea came up for hearing this afternoon. “Its with a very heavy heart I have to inform you that Fr. Stan Swamy has passed away,” a doctor treating him informed the court. He added that early on Saturday the 84-year old activist had suffered a cardiac arrest and could not be revived.
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