Father Frazer Mascarenhas, an associate of late Jesuit priest Stan Swamy, has approached the Bombay High Court seeking to clear Swamy's name in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.

In a petition filed through senior counsel Mihir Desai on Thursday, Mascarenhas, former principal of city-based St Xavier's College, also sought that the court monitor the judicial inquiry into Swamy's custodial death.