Maharashtra Submits Stan Swamy's Medical Records In Bombay High Court

Suffering from Parkinson's disease and a host of other medical ailments, Stan Swamy, who was then 83, was remanded to judicial custody following his arrest.

The Maharashtra government on Tuesday 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 case who died in a hospital while being in judicial custody last week awaiting a medical bail. Chief public prosecutor Aruna Pai told a bench of Justices SS Shinde and NJ Jamadar that the state had submitted "a compilation of Swamy's complete medical records" since the time he was lodged in the Taloja prison as an undertrial. Stan Swamy was arrested by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) from Ranchi in October 2020. He was interrogated at the time of his arrest by the NIA but the central agency never sought his custody. Suffering from Parkinson's disease and a host of other medical ailments, Stan Swamy, who was then 83, was remanded to judicial custody following his arrest. He was then admitted to the Taloja prison hospital in Navi Mumbai.