Maharashtra govt submits medical records of late priest Stan Swamy in HC
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The Maharashtra authorities on July 13 submitted to the Bombay High Court the medical records of Jesuit priest and activist Stan Swamy, an 84-year-old accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoists hyperlinks case who died in a hospital in Mumbai whereas being in judicial custody final week awaiting a medical bail.
Chief public prosecutor Aruna Pai instructed a Bench of Justices S.S. Shinde and N.J. Jamadar that the State had submitted “a compilation of Swamy’s complete medical records” for the reason that time he was lodged in the Taloja jail as an undertrial.
Swamy was arrested by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) from Ranchi in October 2020. He was interrogated on the time of his arrest by the NIA however the Central company by no means sought his custody.
Suffering from Parkinson’s illness and a number of different medical illnesses, Swamy, who was then 83-year-old, was remanded to judicial custody following his arrest. He was then admitted to the Taloja jail hospital in Navi Mumbai.
After informing the excessive court docket about Swamy’s dying on July 5 this yr, senior counsel Mihir Desai, who had represented the tribal rights activist in the HC, had instructed the court docket that Swamy’s dying was a end result of negligence on half of the NIA and the Maharashtra jail authorities who had failed to offer him well timed and sufficient medical assist.
Mr. Desai had additionally urged the HC on the time to maintain Swamy’s plea for medical bail and his plea difficult the bar on grant of bail underneath the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act pending. He had additionally urged the HC to name for Swamy’s medical records.
On Mr. Desai’s request, the excessive court docket had handed an order calling for the medical records to establish the veracity of the allegations made towards authorities.
On Tuesday, Mr. Pai submitted that the “Taloja prison authority had placed on record a 300-page long compilation of documents including medical reports from the time Stan Swamy was brought to Taloja Jail till his postmortem report”.
Besides the State authorities, the non-public Holy Family Hospital in Mumbai, the place Swamy died throughout remedy, additionally submitted the late activist’s medical records and the remedy supplied to him.
The excessive court docket took all of the paperwork on report.
The Bench additionally mentioned that since Swamy died in judicial custody, a magisterial inquiry into his dying, as mandated by part 176 of the CrPC, might be carried out.
“Whatever inquiry or investigation by the magistrate under 176 (CrPC) takes place, someone will have to participate in it now,” the excessive court docket instructed Desai.
Mr. Desai mentioned he had some submissions to make on such inquiry and he’ll accomplish that on the subsequent date of listening to.
The HC will hear Mr. Desai and all different events on July 19.
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