Father Frazer Mascarenhas, former principal of St Xavier’s College, on Thursday told the Bombay High Court that he will challenge the magistrate’s judicial inquiry report into the custodial death of his late friend Father Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgaar Parishad case.

Mascarenhas said the magistrate’s report had concluded that Swamy’s death was due to natural causes, a finding later affirmed by the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC). The HC disposed of his plea seeking a judicial inquiry, granting him liberty to file a fresh petition challenging both the magistrate’s report and the SHRC order. Swamy died in custody on July 5, 2021.

The court was hearing Mascarenhas’s plea, filed in his capacity as de facto next of kin after being appointed by the Jamshedpur Jesuit Province, with w

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