MUMBAI: The Bombay high court has continued the stay of terminally ill Nirmala Kumari Uppuganti an accused in the Gadchiroli 2019 IED blast and alleged naxal at a hospice in Bandra (west) for four months.
The direction by a bench led by Justices Nitin Jamdar and Sarang Kotwal was passed on Wednesday after considering a report of Tata Memorial Hospital panel that suggested continuation of palliative care for Uppuganti (59) aka Narmada Akka at Shanti Avedna Sadan.
On her petition stating that there is no access to basic amenities in Byculla women’s prison, HC on September 9 held that Uppuganti has “a legitimate right to expect palliative care and nursing.”
It had directed her transfer to the hospice for 12 weeks and that she be taken to Tata’s for treatment.
The report stated that Uppuganti is a “wide spread metastatic breast cancer’’ patient, that prognosis in such cases is poor and she needs palliative care.
