On Friday, the National Investigative Agency (NIA) dismissed reports that claim it requested 20 days of court time to respond to Father Stan Swamy’s request to allow him a straw and a sip at Taloja Central Jail, as he can’t hold a glass because he has Parkinson’s. disease.
The agency also said it never retrieved any straws and sips from it, so there was no question that the agency held onto it. He called all these claims “false, incorrect and malicious.”
In an official response, the NIA spokesman said: “Defendant Stan Swamy filed an application on November 6 at the NIA court in Mumbai to retrieve his straw and straw which he claimed had been kept with the NIA . The court asked the agency to present its response on the next date, which was scheduled for November 26 (Thursday). NIA never looked for any time as such, and to say that the NIA looked for 20 days of time is false, incorrect and malicious. ”
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The agency added: “The NIA duly filed its response in court on Thursday stating that the NIA had searched Stan Swamy in the presence of independent witnesses and no such straws and sips were found.”
“The court rejected Swamy’s request and ordered the prison authorities to provide him with a straw and a sip,” the spokesman said.
Swamy, 83, was arrested in the first week of October by the agency in the 2018 Bhima-Koregaon conspiracy case.
The central counterterrorism investigation agency has stated in its charge sheet, presented last month, that Swamy had received “Rs8 lakh from Comrade Mohan to publicize the activities of the Communist Party of India (Maoist).”
Several documents recovered from their place, which have been added to the NIA charge sheet, include “a clandestine manual, letters between cadres, a mini-manual of urban guerrilla, the constitution of the PCI (Maoist), documents related to the status of the Guerrilla Army of Popular Liberation, documents on strategy and tactics ”. One of the letters seized from him stated that the Maoists were monitoring the Home Office’s strategy in relation to operations against them, according to the NIA charge sheet.
While Swamy’s lawyers have asserted in court that Swamy is a member of the Persecuted Prisoner Solidarity Committee (PPSC), which works with prisoners on trial, the NIA has argued that PPSC is a “front organization” for CPI (Maoist ).
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