Written by Sharangee Dutta | Edited by Sohini Goswami, New Delhi
Maharashtra’s independent MLA Ravi Rana on Thursday said officials of Mumbai’s Byculla women’s jail did not pay attention to his MP wife Navneet Rana even after she complained of health issues and requested hospitalisation.
The couple, who were arrested on April 23 for their call to chant the Hanuman Chalisa outside Maharashtra chief minister and Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray’s family residence ‘Matoshree’, walked out of jail earlier in the day. They were granted bail by a Mumbai sessions court on Wednesday.
Navneet left Byculla jail around 2pm, while Ravi walked out of Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai about two hours later. The Mumbai Police had booked the lawmaker couple under several sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including sedition and promoting enmity between different groups.
Soon after leaving Byculla, Navneet was admitted to Lilavati hospital in Mumbai’s suburban Bandra region. Ravi was seen visiting the hospital later, with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kirit Somaiya accompanying him.
“I am going to check on her condition. She had been requesting prison officials for the last six days that she be admitted to a hospital, but they did not pay attention,” Ravi was quoted as saying by PTI.
On Wednesday, Navneet was taken to JJ Hospital for her spondylitis treatment and then brought back to the Byculla jail. Her lawyer had earlier provided details of her health condition, saying she had spondylitis and that the condition was deteriorating due to continuously sitting and lying on the floor of the jail.
According to Navneet’s advocate, the MP was suffering from high blood pressure, body pain and spondylitis.
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