: Three Bhima Koregaon case accused test positive for Covid-19, says report #IndiaNEWS Three accused in the Bhima Koregaon case – Mahesh Raut, Sagar Gorkhe and Ramesh Gaichor – have tested positive

Three Bhima Koregaon case accused test positive for Covid-19, says report #IndiaNEWS
Three accused in the Bhima Koregaon case – Mahesh Raut, Sagar Gorkhe and Ramesh Gaichor – have tested positive for the coronavirus disease, The Hindu reported on Thursday. An RT-PCR test drive was conducted at Taloja Jail after tribal rights activist and co-accused in the case Stan Swamy tested positive for the infection at a hospital in Mumbai on May 30.The three who have tested positive, are among the 10 accused in the case, who continue to be lodged in Taloja Jail. They were staying in close proximity to Swamy before he was shifted to the hospital, due to poor health.Seven other accused in the case have tested negative, the superintendent of Taloja Jail told The Hindu. These include Vernon Gonsalves, Sudhir Dhawale, Surendra Gadling, Arun Ferreira, Anand Teltumbde, Rona Wilson and Gautam Navlakha.Last month, Delhi University Professor Hany Babu, an undertrial prisoner in the Bhima Koregaon case, too was hospitalised after testing positive for the coronavirus and contracting an eye infection. Babu was also lodged at the Taloja Jail. Last year, poet and activist Varavara Rao had tested positive while he was kept in the same prison. Concerns about the medical facilities and lack of physical distancing at the Taloja Jail have constantly been raised by family members and lawyers of the accused in the Bhima...Read more

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