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Elgar Parishad case: Stan Swamy files plea to use straw, sipper in jail due to health issues, NIA to reply by 26 Nov

FP Staff • November 7, 2020, 17:20:30 IST
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Reports said that the 82-year-old activist, who is accused of “receiving funds for furthering the Maoist agenda”, has Parkinson’s disease which leads to shaking, stiffness, and difficulty with walking, balance, and coordination

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Elgar Parishad case: Stan Swamy files plea to use straw, sipper in jail due to health issues, NIA to reply by 26 Nov

Eighty-two-year-old Father Stan Swamy, arrested in the Elgar Parishad-alleged Maoist links case, has filed an application before a special court, seeking that he be allowed to use a straw and sipper in Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai, where he is currently lodged. Swamy was arrested from his home in Ranchi last month in connection with the violence in Bhima Koregaon near Pune in January 2018. The accused, through his lawyer Kritika Agarwal, moved the plea before the special NIA court on Friday seeking straw and sipper in jail citing health issues. NDTV reported that the activist has been diagnosed with the Parkinson’s disease. The special court judge DE Kothalikar has asked the national probe agency to file its reply on the matter on 26 November. NIA officials have said that investigations established that Swamy was actively involved in the activities of the CPI (Maoist). The NIA has also alleged that he was in contact with “conspirators” — Sudhir Dhawale, Rona Wilson, Surendra Gadling, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves, Hany Babu, Shoma Sen, Mahesh Raut, Varavara Rao, Sudha Bharadwaj, Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde to further the group’s activities. It also alleged that Swamy had received funds through an associate for furthering the agenda. Besides, he is convenor of the Persecuted Prisoners Solidarity Committee (PPSC), a “frontal organisation” of the CPI (Maoist), the NIA officials have claimed. They said that literature, propaganda material of the CPI (Maoist) and documents related to communications for furthering the group’s programmes were seized from his possession. Last month, the NIA had filed a charge-sheet in the matter against eight people, including Swamy. As many as 16 people have been arrested in connection with the case so far under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the anti-terror law UAPA. The probe into the Elgar Parishad case was taken over by the NIA on 24 January this year. The Pune police have claimed that speeches delivered at the Elgar Parishad conclave, held on 31 December, 2017 at Shaniwarwada in Pune city, led to the violence at Koregaon Bhima the next day. The police have claimed the conclave was organised by people having Maoist links.

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