Bhima Koregaon: Court pulls up prison officials for not replying to Dr Anand Teltumbde’s plea for home food

The particular NIA courtroom pulled up jail authorities for not sending a report on the appliance filed by activist Dr Anand Teltumbde for house meals.

Teltumbde had moved an utility for house meals on August 28 the place he had additionally raised points associated to his well being. The courtroom had directed the superintendent of Taloja jail to submit a report and likewise take him for a medical check-up. The jail authorities had been requested to submit a reply by September 4. The jail has nonetheless not filed a report on the plea earlier than the particular courtroom.

Annoyed with this the courtroom noticed, “In number of matters this court has observed that whenever a report is called for either from the Superintendent of Taloja, Central Prison or Mumbai Central Prison they do not bother to submit timely reports, resultantly it compels the court to keep such application pending for want of reports from the prison authorities. Hence the Superintendent of Taloja Central Prison and Mumbai Central Prison are directed to submit the reports on fixed dates, else this court will be constrained to initiate action for not following the orders of the court.”

The courtroom has knowledgeable the involved commissioner of police for info and likewise to take essential motion. The courtroom has now requested the jail authority to submit the report on the subsequent listening to scheduled in December.

Teltumbde, an engineer and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) graduate who used to show on the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) and on the Goa Institute of Management, was arrested after the Supreme Court refused to grant him safety. On April 14, Teltumbde surrendered earlier than NIA in Mumbai. NIA had mentioned it wanted to probe Teltumbde’s alleged hyperlinks with the banned outfit, Communist Party of India (CPI, Maoist).

According to the prosecution, Teltumbde delivered a “provocative presentation” and speeches on December 31, 2017, throughout an occasion at Shaniwarwada in Pune, which led to the violence at Bhima-Koregaon in January 2018, state-wide agitation and lack of life. NIA has alleged Teltumbde was the convener of the programme and his name knowledge information present he was in contact with the opposite arrested accused current on the occasion.