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Stan Swamy’s medical information submitted in court docket, HC seeks reply from NIA, jail dept

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The Bombay High Court on Tuesday requested the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Maharashtra jail division to review the medical stories of Elgaar Parishad case accused Father Stan Swamy, the Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist who breathed his final in a non-public hospital in Mumbai on July 5, an hour earlier than his medical bail plea was to be heard by the HC.
The HC requested the authorities to reply on July 19 to Swamy’s counsel’s claims of apathy and lack of medical amenities, regardless of the octogenarian affected by a number of illnesses that required shut monitoring.
As per a May 28 HC order, Swamy was shifted from Taloja Central Jail in Navi Mumbai to Holy Family Hospital at Bandra in Mumbai. He was requested to bear the price of his remedy.

Senior counsel Mihir Desai, representing Swamy, had earlier mentioned that whereas he didn’t have complaints towards the Holy Family Hospital, Swamy’s well being deteriorated resulting from “negligence on part of the NIA and the Maharashtra prison authorities”, who had failed to offer him well timed and sufficient remedy.
While looking for his medical information, Desai had additionally urged HC to maintain pending the appeals filed by Father Stan Swamy towards particular court docket orders rejecting his bail pleas on medical grounds and deserves.
Thereafter, the HC had requested NIA and the jail division to supply information of Swamy’s remedy by July 13 to establish the veracity of the allegations made by Desai.
On Tuesday, Chief Public Prosecutor Aruna S Pai, representing the jail division, positioned on file a 300-page compilation of paperwork, together with medical stories, since Swamy was dropped at Taloja jail until the postmortem of his physique was carried out.

“The Holy Family Hospital has also submitted medical reports/papers of the treatment given to Fr. Swamy,” the HC famous. It wl hear the case once more on Monday.