Swamy, 84, who claims to be suffering from several ailments, had moved the high court earlier this year seeking medical treatment and interim bail on health grounds.
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.
Swamy’s lawyer alleged that this was a result of ‘criminal negligence’ by Taloja prison authorities, who failed to provide adequate care to inmates & conduct timely RT-PCR tests.
Swamy, who suffers from multiple ailments, had earlier refused to get admitted to the state-run JJ Hospital in Mumbai, saying he had been there twice but found no relief.
Stan Swamy was arrested last October. NIA court says there is sufficient evidence for believing that accusations against Swamy and his co-accused are prima facie true.
The 83-year-old, a Jesuit priest and activist, was arrested from Ranchi in October 2020, and has since been lodged at the Taloja Central Jail in Navi Mumbai.
A special NIA court has rejected Jesuit priest and Parkinson’s patient Stan Swamy’s request for a sipper & straw after giving probe agency 20 days to respond.
What made him ‘Akbar the Great’ was not the might of his armies alone, but the political architecture he built to sustain power over a subcontinent teeming with diversity.
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