Stan Sway has been waiting for more than 20 days to get access to a straw and sipper. Swamy, an 83-year-old activist currently in jail afte...
Stan Sway has been waiting for more than 20 days to get access to a straw and sipper. Swamy, an 83-year-old activist currently in jail after being arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case, put in a request for a sipper and straw on November 6 because he has Parkinson’s disease and is unable to hold a glass.
When he was arrested in Ranchi, Jharkhand, in October, he carried a small bag that contained a few belongings, including a straw and a sipper, said his lawyer Sharif Sheikh. However, the contents were not handed to him when he entered jail, Sheikh said.
It took the National Investigating Agency nearly three weeks just to inform the court overseeing the matter that it did not have Swamy’s straw and sipper since it had not confiscated them. The agency then told the court it would need another 20 days to respond to a petition asking for permission to get access to the sipper, as well as winter clothes. But the matter will now be taken up on December 4.
In the larger scheme of things, callousness of this sort, from both the agency and the court, could seem minor. After all, it occurs at a time when draconian laws like the Unlawful...
