The Taloja Jail authorities in Mumbai have refused to accept a parcel containing the spectacles of civil rights campaigner Gautam Navlakha, his partner Sabha Hussain said in a statement shared on Monday. Navlakha is an accused in the Bhima Koregaon violence of 2018.
The statement said that the 70-year-old activist’s spectacles were stolen on November 27 and that he is already suffering from several ailments. “It was an emergency, for he is close to blind without his glasses,” it added. “Yet, he was not permitted to call his home for a replacement until three days later, but even that call proved futile.”
Hussain said that she sent a new pair of spectacles, but the jail authorities refused to accept it when it was delivered via post on December 5. “The jail authorities were informed that Gautam was almost blind without the spectacles and that they would be arriving any day and to ensure that the parcel is accepted and not returned,” the statement read….