To demand justice for all the under-trials incarcerated in overcrowded and unhygienic prisons - subject to the COVID -19 Pandemic
By Harsh Thakor
To demand justice for
all the under-trials incarcerated in overcrowded and unhygienic prisons across Maharashtra amidst the COVID -19 Pandemic. Letter to Chief Minister Maharashtra is
mentioned in the below link. Please sign the petition by signing and filing the
information in the below-mentioned link before 15th July 10 pm. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GvBN8x_VbGngqgf5axZutOieGB_LOienBtYwV4fmHNk
-Comrade
Varavararao's condition is very very serious in the jail where no good
treatment is possible. Let us appeal individually and in the name of all mass
organizations to President of India to intervene to shift him to a good
hospital immediately. Let all democratic forces join hands to put pressure on
the President to get at least to give him a good treatment at this stage. Red
Salute to #Varavararao Kn Ramachandran #CPIML_Red_Star Press Note from Vara
Vara Rao's Family: July 12, 2020 DON'T KILL #VARAVARARAO IN JAIL !! We, the
family members of Varavara Rao, world-renowned Telugu revolutionary poet and
public intellectual, who is incarcerated in Navi Mumbai’s Taloja Jail, are very
much worried about his deteriorating health. His health condition has been
scary for over six weeks now, ever since he was shifted in an unconscious state
to JJ Hospital from Taloja Jail on May 28, 2020. Even as he was discharged from
the hospital and sent back to jail three days later, there has been no
improvement in his health and he is still in need of emergency heathcare. The
immediate cause of concern now is that we are very much perturbed at the
routine phone call we received from him on Saturday evening. Though the earlier
two calls on June 24 and July 2 were also worrying with his weak and muffled
voice, incoherent speech and abruptly jumping into Hindi. As an eloquent and
articulate public speaker and writer in Telugu for over five decades, a Telugu
teacher for four decades and known for his meticulous memory, this fumbling,
incoherence and loss of memory were in themselves strange and frightening. But
the latest call, on July 11 is much more worrisome as he did not answer
straight questions on his health and went into a kind of delirious and
hallucinated talk about the funeral of his father and mother, the events that
happened seven decades and four decades ago respectively. Then his co-accused
companion took the phone from him and informed us that he is not able to walk,
go to toilet and brush his teeth on his own. We were also told that he is
always hallucinating that we, family members, were waiting at the jail gate to
receive him as he was getting released. His co-prisoner also said he needs
immediate medical care for not only physical but also neurological issues. The
confusion, loss of memory and incoherence are the results of electrolyte
imbalance and fall of Sodium and Potassium levels leading to brain damage. This
electrolyte imbalance may be fatal also. Taloja Jail Hospital is not at all
equipped to handle this kind of serious ailment either in medical expertise or
equipment. Thus it is highly required that he be shifted to a fully equipped
super specialty hospital to save his life and prevent possible brain damage and
risk to life due to electrolyte imbalance. At the present juncture we are
leaving aside all the pertinent facts like, that the case against him is
fabricated; he had to spend 22 months in jail as an undertrial with the process
turned into punishment; his bail petitions got rejected at least five times now
and even the bail petitions with his age, ill-health and Covid vulnerability as
grounds were ignored. His life is the top most concern for us right now. Our
present demand is to save his life. We demand the government to shift him to a
better hospital or allow us to provide required medical care. We want to remind
the government that it has no right to deny the right to life of any person, much
less an undertrial prisoner.
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