Applicant Hazi Farooq Sheikh was convicted in the Haren Pandya case.
Acting on an application submitted by a convict suffering from epilepsy, additional sessions judge Jyotsnaben Yagnik has directed the public prosecutor to inform the jail superintendent to remain present with the convict’s medical papers on Wednesday.
The applicant, Hazi Farooq Sheikh, who was convicted in the Haren Pandya murder case, had submitted an application in the city sessions court saying he had been suffering from epilepsy for a long time, but jail superintendent V Chandrashekar had banned medication for prisoners in the jail.
In the application filed through lawyers Javed Pathan and KG Sheikh, Sheikh said even after opting to spend his own money on procuring medication from outside, if the jail authorities did not want to get it for him as per procedure, the medication would be put aside by jail superintendent.
Sheikh said in his application that the sessions court had earlier granted him temporary bail on medical grounds and that he had not breached the conditions of his bail in the past. He further said that both his parents were dead and his two brothers were both patients of epilepsy.
Though the sessions court had directed the superintendent of Sabarmati Central Jail to remain present before court with the case papers on Monday, he failed to do so, after which the court adjourned hearing in the matter till Wednesday. The court had also directed on March 12 that if the jail superintendent were unable to remain present in person, an authority representing him should be present or a report should be submitted, none of which were done.
According to case details, Sheikh had been convicted of helping shooter Asghar Ali, an accused in the Haren Pandya murder. He had been accused of travelling with Ali to Ahmedabad and providing him shelter. A weapon had also been found from his home.
In April 2003, the Ahmedabad city crime branch had booked five youth in the ISI conspiracy case, on charges of waging a war against the nation, one week after former home minister Haren Pandya was murdered. The CBI had arrested Ali, who had shot Pandya dead, and four others from Andhra Pradesh.
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