Mumbai: Stan Swamy, the 84year-old activist-priest who was in custody since October 2020 in the Elgar Parishad case under an anti-terror law (UAPA) despite repeated pleas for bail on grounds of old age and poor health, died at a Mumbai hospital on Monday. The Bombay HC was scheduled to hear his bail plea at 11am on Tuesday.
His death was announced by Holy Family Hospital medical director, Dr Ian D’Souza, during a virtual session of the Bombay high court which was hearing Swamy’s plea for medical bail on a request for an urgent hearing at 2.30pm by his counsel Mihir Desai. Cause of death was a combination of pulmonary complications and Parkinson’s, the doctor informed the judges. Swamy had developed septicaemia too. He died at 1.24pm after suffering a cardiac arrest on Sunday at 4.30am, the doctor said. He had not regained consciousness after being put on the ventilator. The bench of Justices S S Shinde and N J Jamadar recorded the news with a “heavy heart”.
While tributes poured in for the tribal rights champion, social media was thick with condemnation for the treatment meted out him by the investigating agency and judiciary. Swamy’s lawyer alleged negligence by jail authorities and questioned the NIA’s conduct in opposing his bail.
‘I WAS BROUGHT HEALTHY, JAIL RUINED MY BODY’
ACCUSED OF FURTHERING MAOIST CAUSE
Oct 8, 2020 | Father Stan Swamy (84), Jesuit priest & tribal rights activist in Jharkhand, arrested from Ranchi in Elgar Parishad case, lodged in Taloja jail
Oct 9 | NIA describes him as a cadre of the banned CPI (Maoist) and accuses him of communicating with and receiving funds from other Maoist cadres
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