Special Judge DE Kothalikar dismissed the petitions relying on the recommendations of the High Powered Committee constituted to decongest prisons due to the COVID 19 pandemic.
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Tuesday dismissed the medical bail pleas filed by senior citizens Shoma Sen, Anand Teltumbde, Gautam Navlakha and Vernon Gonsalves.
They are all accused in the Bhima Koregaon caste violence case and are suffering from multiple co-morbidities. Special Judge DE Kothalikar dismissed the petitions relying on the recommendations of the High Powered Committee constituted to decongest prisons due to the COVID 19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, the same court extended the interim bail granted to one of the accused in the case, Rona Wilson. He was directed to be released from September 13 to September 27 to go to his home in Kerala and attend a mass ceremony for his late father. Mr Wilson will now return to Taloja Central Jail on 30 September.
Mr. Teltumbde, 70, is a Professor and was the Managing Director and CEO of Petronet India Limited. He suffers from Chronic Bronchitis Asthma, Chronic Cervical Spondylitis, Supraspinatus Tendinopathy and Prostateomegaly. He surrendered before NIA Mumbai on April 14, 2020.
Mr. Gonsalves, 69, is a writer and columnist and suffers from hypertension, high blood pressure and piles. Mr Navlakha, 67, is a civil rights scholar and journalist and a patient of colonic polyposis, chronic gastritis and hypertension. Mr. Gonsalves was arrested on August 28, 2018 and Mr. Navlakha surrendered before NIA Delhi on April 14, 2020. All three are lodged in Taloja Central Jail.
Professor Sen, 63, is the former head of the Department of English at Nagoor University. She filed her application stating that she has several ailments including osteoarthritis, glaucoma and high blood pressure. He was arrested on June 6, 2018 and is lodged in Byculla Central Jail.
On May 29, 2020, the special court had dismissed the medical plea of 61-year-old trade unionist and advocate Sudha Bharadwaj, who is suffering from diabetes, blood pressure and ischemic heart disease.
The same court had on October 23 dismissed the medical plea of 83-year-old late Father Stan Swamy, filed on the recommendations of the committee.
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