Bombay HC reserves verdict on ill Naxal’s plea – Times of India

Mumbai: Bombay HC on Tuesday reserved its verdict on a plea by an alleged Naxalite, terminally ill due to cancer, to shift her for palliative care to Shanti Avedna hospice at Bandra. A bench led by Justice S S Shinde heard a petition by Gadchiroli IED blast accused Nirmala Kumari Uppunganti (59), lodged at Byculla prison. She is suffering from multiple skeletal metastases that have spread to her lungs, skull and liver and breast cancer. Opposing relief for her, the state said she should continue treatment at Tata Hospital and two inmates would attend to her. tnn