Elgar Parishad case: NIA court denies bail to activist Stan Swamy
A particular NIA court on Monday rejected the bail plea filed by tribal rights activist Stan Swamy, arrested within the Elgar Parishad-Maoist hyperlinks case.
Additional periods court choose Judge DE Kothalikar rejected bail pleas of 83-year-old Swamy on deserves in addition to nicely as on medical grounds.
Swamy, a Jesuit priest and activist, was arrested from Ranchi in October, 2020, and has since been lodged on the Taloja Central Jail in Navi Mumbai.
As per his legal professionals, Swamy is affected by Parkinson’s illness and he has misplaced the power to hear from each his ears. He additionally suffers from a number of different illnesses.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had opposed Swamy’s bail plea saying probe had revealed that Swamy was a staunch supporter of organisations reminiscent of ‘Vistapan Virodhi Jan Vikas Andolan’ and ‘People’s Union for Civil Liberties’, which have been working as “fronts of the CPI (Maoist)”.
Swamy’s lawyer Sharif Shaikh had argued that the NIA had failed to set up Swamy’s connection to the Elgar Parishad-Maoists hyperlinks case.
