Nagpur: After the death of the worker Stan Swami While the relatives of other accused are still in custody Elgar Parishad Cases are also complaining of poor conditions in the prison.
TOI spoke to the relatives of some of the people lodged in Taloja and Byculla jails and they said that it is difficult to provide them with basic necessities like clothes which is otherwise the right of an undertrial prisoner.
Shoma Sen’s husband Tusharkanti Bhattacharya Nagpur University The professor arrested in the case said that during a video call he noticed that his clothes were “almost torn”. “Due to Covid physical meeting is not allowed and even clothes cannot be handed over for some reason. Finally, after much persuasion at the prison gate, they agreed to take the clothes,” he said.
“My wife also suffers from arthritis and suffers from joint pain, but is denied small facilities. He needs glaucoma medicine. Cold chain has to be maintained if medicine is to be sent from Nagpur to Mumbai,” Bhattacharya said and also read a letter in which Sen mentioned that another accused Jyoti Jagtap has got Covid and is in an isolation centre.
Monali’s sister in jail Mahesh Raut, said he had Covid last month. “Mahesh was tested a few days after Stan Swamy was found positive. Jail authorities have kept him in isolation along with four-five others. Soon, he developed moderate symptoms and I sent him medicines after consulting a doctor. It appears that there has been no active medical assistance from the jail authorities.” Mahesh, a worker from Gadchiroli, “is yet to recover from the weakness”.
According to wife Jenny Rowena, Honey Babu is still in the hospital recovering from a post-Covid eye infection. “It is not mucormycosis but some bacterial problem. It has affected his gland and optic nerves,” she said.
Babu was taken JJ Hospital Only after his eye condition deteriorated “from a crowded prison”. “By that time it was difficult to even open my eyes. During routine check-up at JJ Hospital, it was found that he had Kovid. Since only Covid patients could be treated there, we admitted him to a private hospital after getting permission,” Rowena said.
Professor Babu of Delhi University was “not allowed to take clothes on the ground that new things from outside could spread Covid”. “Only drugs could have been sent,” Rowena said.
while min gadling, wife of a Nagpur based lawyer Surendra Gadling, said there are currently no problems, only after “voicing up” did many things improve. “A leaking roof was fixed after taking up the issue with the authorities. Stan Swamy’s death during custodial shows that the health condition in the prisons is poor and the time has come for all the accused to get bail.
chhattisgarh worker Sudha Bharadwaj Was denied warm clothes during winter according to Shalini Gera, his lawyers and associates. “Last January, he had asked for some warm clothes. Keeping in view the weather in Mumbai, we had sent him a stole and a shawl. Both the items were returned,” she said.
TOI spoke to the relatives of some of the people lodged in Taloja and Byculla jails and they said that it is difficult to provide them with basic necessities like clothes which is otherwise the right of an undertrial prisoner.
Shoma Sen’s husband Tusharkanti Bhattacharya Nagpur University The professor arrested in the case said that during a video call he noticed that his clothes were “almost torn”. “Due to Covid physical meeting is not allowed and even clothes cannot be handed over for some reason. Finally, after much persuasion at the prison gate, they agreed to take the clothes,” he said.
“My wife also suffers from arthritis and suffers from joint pain, but is denied small facilities. He needs glaucoma medicine. Cold chain has to be maintained if medicine is to be sent from Nagpur to Mumbai,” Bhattacharya said and also read a letter in which Sen mentioned that another accused Jyoti Jagtap has got Covid and is in an isolation centre.
Monali’s sister in jail Mahesh Raut, said he had Covid last month. “Mahesh was tested a few days after Stan Swamy was found positive. Jail authorities have kept him in isolation along with four-five others. Soon, he developed moderate symptoms and I sent him medicines after consulting a doctor. It appears that there has been no active medical assistance from the jail authorities.” Mahesh, a worker from Gadchiroli, “is yet to recover from the weakness”.
According to wife Jenny Rowena, Honey Babu is still in the hospital recovering from a post-Covid eye infection. “It is not mucormycosis but some bacterial problem. It has affected his gland and optic nerves,” she said.
Babu was taken JJ Hospital Only after his eye condition deteriorated “from a crowded prison”. “By that time it was difficult to even open my eyes. During routine check-up at JJ Hospital, it was found that he had Kovid. Since only Covid patients could be treated there, we admitted him to a private hospital after getting permission,” Rowena said.
Professor Babu of Delhi University was “not allowed to take clothes on the ground that new things from outside could spread Covid”. “Only drugs could have been sent,” Rowena said.
while min gadling, wife of a Nagpur based lawyer Surendra Gadling, said there are currently no problems, only after “voicing up” did many things improve. “A leaking roof was fixed after taking up the issue with the authorities. Stan Swamy’s death during custodial shows that the health condition in the prisons is poor and the time has come for all the accused to get bail.
chhattisgarh worker Sudha Bharadwaj Was denied warm clothes during winter according to Shalini Gera, his lawyers and associates. “Last January, he had asked for some warm clothes. Keeping in view the weather in Mumbai, we had sent him a stole and a shawl. Both the items were returned,” she said.
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