Court's medical relief to murder convict

Acting on an application submitted by a convict in the Sabarmati central jail, Hazi Farooq Sheikh, regarding supply of epileptic medicines, additional sessions judge Jyotsnaben Yagnik directed the jail authorities to provide him with alternate medicines available with the jail.

DNA had on March 17 reported that Sheikh who was convicted in the Haren Pandya murder case had submitted an application in court seeking medicines as he has been suffering from epilepsy since a long time. As the jail superintendent has banned medication within the jail premises for all prisoners, Sheikh therefore had to file the application in court.

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.

V Chandrashekhar, superintendent of the Sabarmati central jail had deposed before the court that Sheikh had been asking for medicines which were not mentioned on the jail manual and so these medicines could not be provided to the accused. This was after the jail superintendent was asked to remain present with medical papers of the accused before court.