"Prisoners Don't Cease To Be Humans": Court Orders Healthcare For Ill Blast Accused
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Nirmala Uppuganti is an accused in the 2019 Gadchiroli IED blast case.
Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the Maharashtra government to transfer alleged Maoist leader Nirmala Uppuganti from jail to a hospice (health facility) for palliative care on account of her terminal cancer. Uppuganti, an accused in the 2019 Gadchiroli IED blast case, had filed a plea through senior counsel Yug Chaudhry and advocate Payoshi Roy, asking to be shifted to a hospice for palliative care so that she was "properly taken care of during her final days." A bench of Justices SS Shinde and NJ Jamadar directed the state prison authorities to shift Uppuganti from the Byculla women's prison in Mumbai to a hospice by September 15. The state's counsel, Sangeeta Shinde, however, had opposed Uppuganti's plea.More Related News