By PTI
MUMBAI: Activist Vernon Gonsalves, an accused within the Elgar Parishad-Maoist hyperlinks case, is affected by dengue, his lawyer on Thursday knowledgeable a particular court docket, which is listening to his plea for short-term bail on medical grounds.
He has been admitted to the state-run J J Hospital in Mumbai and placed on oxygen help, the lawyer mentioned.
As per his lawyer, the 65-year-old activist was additionally suspected to be affected by pneumonia.
Gonsalves’s plea for short-term bail on medical grounds is pending earlier than the particular NIA (National Investigation Agency) court docket.
During the listening to on the plea earlier than the court docket on Thursday, the lawyer advised the court docket his consumer is affected by dengue fever, a mosquito-borne illness.
Hospital authorities confirmed the event. Gonsalves was arrested by the Pune police underneath the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act after raids at residences and workplaces of a number of activists in reference to the case.
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The police had claimed provocative speeches made on the ‘Elgar Parishad’ conclave on December 31, 2017, have been accountable for the caste violence round Bhima-Koregaon village in Pune district the subsequent day throughout an occasion organised to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the battle of Bhima Koregaon.
One particular person was killed and several other others have been injured within the violence.
The case, by which over a dozen activists and academicians have been named accused, was later taken over by NIA.
MUMBAI: Activist Vernon Gonsalves, an accused within the Elgar Parishad-Maoist hyperlinks case, is affected by dengue, his lawyer on Thursday knowledgeable a particular court docket, which is listening to his plea for short-term bail on medical grounds.
He has been admitted to the state-run J J Hospital in Mumbai and placed on oxygen help, the lawyer mentioned.
As per his lawyer, the 65-year-old activist was additionally suspected to be affected by pneumonia.
Gonsalves’s plea for short-term bail on medical grounds is pending earlier than the particular NIA (National Investigation Agency) court docket.
During the listening to on the plea earlier than the court docket on Thursday, the lawyer advised the court docket his consumer is affected by dengue fever, a mosquito-borne illness.
Hospital authorities confirmed the event. Gonsalves was arrested by the Pune police underneath the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act after raids at residences and workplaces of a number of activists in reference to the case.
ALSO READ | Elgar case: Special NIA court docket refuses bail to activist Gautam Navlakha
The police had claimed provocative speeches made on the ‘Elgar Parishad’ conclave on December 31, 2017, have been accountable for the caste violence round Bhima-Koregaon village in Pune district the subsequent day throughout an occasion organised to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the battle of Bhima Koregaon.
One particular person was killed and several other others have been injured within the violence.
The case, by which over a dozen activists and academicians have been named accused, was later taken over by NIA.
