When Swamy’s health deteriorated in custody, the HC judges had ordered him to be shifted from Taloja jail to a private healthcare facility.
MUMBAI: The 84-year-old rights activist-priest Stan Swamy, who remained 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
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