Activist Stan Swamy, accused of ties between Elgar and the Parishad Maoists, died on Monday, his attorney informed the High Court of Bombay.
Dr. Ian D’Souza, the director of the Holy Family Hospital in the suburban Bandra said that the 84-year-old Jesuit priest had died today at 13.30 pm in the Shinde Hospital and Jamadar Hospital. Since Sunday, the activist has been on fan support.
Following an order from the High Court to request medical care, the tribal right campaigner was admitted to a private hospital on 29 May from Taloja jail, as he suffered coronaviruses and Parkinson’s disease.
Swamy had a heart arrest early Sunday morning from D’Souza to the HC following which he received a fan aid.
This afternoon he (Swamy) did not recover and died,” stated the HC officer. He indicated the cause was a lung infection, Parkinson’s illness, and problems after the post-coronavirus.
The Taloja jail officials, which neglected to give the priest urgent medical treatment, told Swamy’s attorney, Mihir Desai.
The Elgar-Parishad case is connected to a colloquium conducted on 31 December around four years ago in Pune which, according to the police, caused unrest the following day in the vicinity of the Koregaon-Bhima War Memorial on the edge of the western Maharashtra city. Their case was reported as provocative.
People with supposed Maoist ties organized the gathering, the police said.
Stan Swamy and his co-accused in the Elgar-Parishad case have been charged with being members of the frontal organizations on behalf of the outlawed CPI by the National Investigating Agency (NIA).
In the matter of Elgar Parishad, last October Swamy was detained by the NIA under anti-terror legislation and remained since then in prison.
