High Court Asks Maharashtra To Move Jailed Activist Stan Swamy To Private Hospital

Stan Swamy, who suffers from multiple ailments, had refused to get admitted to the JJ Hospital, saying he had been there twice earlier but had found no relief.

The Bombay high court on Friday directed the jail authorities in Maharashtra to shift Jesuit priest and activist Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, from the Taloja prison to a private hospital in Mumbai for treatment for two weeks. A bench of Justices SS Shinde and NR Borkar directed the prison authorities to ensure that Swamy, 84, was shifted from the prison in Navi Mumbai to the Holy Family Hospital in suburban Bandra "preferably during the course of the day." The bench's order came after Stan Swamy's advocate, senior counsel Mihir Desai, moved the bench seeking an urgent hearing on a plea. Stan Swamy has been lodged in the Taloja prison hospital since his arrest in the case in October 2020.