Swamy's counsel said that his stay at the private hospital should be extended as he has tested positive for Covid. The Jesuit priest and activist has been in the hospital since 28 May.
According to her counsel, Sudha Bharadwaj was kept in a ward of the prison with 50 other women under extremely unsanitary conditions, and with just three toilets for all of them.
A bench headed issued notice to NIA on the plea of the activist against the Bombay HC order dismissing his bail plea and asked the probe agency to respond by 15 March.
Rao, who is currently admitted in the Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai, had sought bail on medical grounds in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, which is being probed by the NIA.
The bench said it had gone through a special NIA court's order of last year rejecting Navlakha's bail plea, and stated it saw 'no reason to interfere' with the order.
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh Wednesday said police have conducted a probe into video clippings of the Elgar Parishad conclave at which Usmani spoke and a case has been registered against him.
On 18 November, the high court had noted that 81-year-old suffered from neurological ailments and also needed post-Covid care after recovering from the viral infection.
Rao, 81, had filed a bail application & writ petition asking to be shifted to Nanavati Hospital immediately, owing to his 'diminishing neurological and physical health condition'.
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