Stan Swamy to be sent to pvt hospital

The Bombay high court on Friday directed the jail authorities in Maharashtra to shift Jesuit priest and activist Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, from the Taloja prison to a private hospital in Mumbai for treatment for two weeks. A bench of justices SS Shinde and NR Borkar directed the prison authorities to ensure that Swamy, 84, was shifted from the prison in Navi Mumbai to the Holy Family Hospital in Bandra. Formalities for Swamy’s transfer are underway, Taloja jail officials said on Friday evening. The bench’s order came after Swamy’s advocate, senior counsel Mihir Desai, moved the bench seeking an urgent hearing on a plea. On May 21, Swamy had told the HC that his mental and physical health had declined steadily while being lodged at the Taloja prison.