Waze Dont want to be another Stan Swamy gets court nod for pvt hospital treatment
Mumbai Aug 30 PTI A special court on Monday refused to grant the NIA the custody of dismissed police officer Sachin Waze for questioning in the Antilia bomb scare case and allowed him to get admitted at a private hospital for treatment of his heart ailment after he said he doesnt want to become another Stan SwamySpecial judge Prashant R Sitre permitted Waze 49 who is currently in jail under judicial custody to get admitted to a private hospital in Thane for treatment for his heart ailment The cost of such treatment is to be borne by Waze and his family the court saidWaze through his lawyer senior advocate Sudeep Pasbola had earlier told the court that three of his arteries had 90 per cent blockage and that doctors had advised immediate surgery for the sameHe urged the court to permit him to seek private medical treatment saying he did not wish to die in custody like tribal rights activist and Jesuit priest Stan SwamySwamy 84 an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoists links case had died on July 5 in a private hospital in suburban Bandra while awaiting medical bailLast week the National Investigation Agency NIA had filed an application before the special court seeking the custody of Waze for two days and of his co-accused and former police officer Sunil Mane for five days in the Antilia bomb scare caseWaze and Mane along with eight other accused in the case are currently in judicial custodyThe special court on Monday also refused to grant the NIA Manes custody Previously the central agency had Waze in its custody for 28 days and Mane for 15 daysOn Monday the NIA sought further custody saying it required to question Waze and Mane to corroborate statements of witnessesAdvocate Pasbola however objected to the same and said doctors at government-run JJ Hospital in the metropolis where Waze had been taken from Navi Mumbais Taloja jail prison earlier this month had advised him to undergo a bypass surgery without any delayPasbola produced three medical reports to show Wazes need for immediate medical aid He said nothing was more important than a persons life and that the NIAs probe would be futile if Waze died awaiting medical treatmentNothing is more important than the life of a person The investigation will be futile if the person does not survive Pasbola said We dont want him to become another Stan Swamy he saidThe judge then asked Waze who had been produced before the court if he wished to say anythingWaze said in Marathi then that he did not want to become another Stan Swamy The court in its order directed the Taloja prison authorities to take Waze to the private SS Hospital and Research Centre in Bhiwandi town of Thane district for treatmentIt also directed the Taloja prison Superintendent to submit Wazes medical report before the court every 15 days if the former police officer was admitted to the hospitalAn explosives-laden vehicle was found near industrialist Mukesh Ambanis south Mumbai residence on February 25 Mansukh Hiran a Thane-based businessman had claimed to be the owner of the vehicle Hiran who had said his vehicle had been stolen a week earlier was found dead in a creek in Thane on March 5 The NIA claimed Waze was involved in the planting of the explosives and Hirans murder and arrested him on March 13 He was later dismissed from police service PTI AYA NSK RSY RSY
Mumbai Aug 30 PTI A special court on Monday refused to grant the NIA the custody of dismissed police officer Sachin Waze for questioning in the Antilia bomb scare case and allowed him to get admitted at a private hospital for treatment of his heart ailment after he said he doesnt want to become another Stan SwamySpecial judge Prashant R Sitre permitted Waze 49 who is currently in jail under judicial custody to get admitted to a private hospital in Thane for treatment for his heart ailment The cost of such treatment is to be borne by Waze and his family the court saidWaze through his lawyer senior advocate Sudeep Pasbola had earlier told the court that three of his arteries had 90 per cent blockage and that doctors had advised immediate surgery for the sameHe urged the court to permit him to seek private medical treatment saying he did not wish to die in custody like tribal rights activist and Jesuit priest Stan SwamySwamy 84 an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoists links case had died on July 5 in a private hospital in suburban Bandra while awaiting medical bailLast week the National Investigation Agency NIA had filed an application before the special court seeking the custody of Waze for two days and of his co-accused and former police officer Sunil Mane for five days in the Antilia bomb scare caseWaze and Mane along with eight other accused in the case are currently in judicial custodyThe special court on Monday also refused to grant the NIA Manes custody Previously the central agency had Waze in its custody for 28 days and Mane for 15 daysOn Monday the NIA sought further custody saying it required to question Waze and Mane to corroborate statements of witnessesAdvocate Pasbola however objected to the same and said doctors at government-run JJ Hospital in the metropolis where Waze had been taken from Navi Mumbais Taloja jail prison earlier this month had advised him to undergo a bypass surgery without any delayPasbola produced three medical reports to show Wazes need for immediate medical aid He said nothing was more important than a persons life and that the NIAs probe would be futile if Waze died awaiting medical treatmentNothing is more important than the life of a person The investigation will be futile if the person does not survive Pasbola said We dont want him to become another Stan Swamy he saidThe judge then asked Waze who had been produced before the court if he wished to say anythingWaze said in Marathi then that he did not want to become another Stan Swamy The court in its order directed the Taloja prison authorities to take Waze to the private SS Hospital and Research Centre in Bhiwandi town of Thane district for treatmentIt also directed the Taloja prison Superintendent to submit Wazes medical report before the court every 15 days if the former police officer was admitted to the hospitalAn explosives-laden vehicle was found near industrialist Mukesh Ambanis south Mumbai residence on February 25 Mansukh Hiran a Thane-based businessman had claimed to be the owner of the vehicle Hiran who had said his vehicle had been stolen a week earlier was found dead in a creek in Thane on March 5 The NIA claimed Waze was involved in the planting of the explosives and Hirans murder and arrested him on March 13 He was later dismissed from police service PTI AYA NSK RSY RSY
