Delhi HC directs Tihar jail authorities to provide appropriate treatment to Yasin Malik

STC NEWS MONITORING DESK
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 28 (STC): The Tihar Jail authorities have been directed today by the Delhi High Court to provide appropriate medical treatment to separatist leader Yasin Malik, who is serving life sentence in a terror case, reports Press Trust of India (PTI).
Justice Neena Bansal Krishna noted that according to the report of Tihar Jail, apparently Malik does not seem to be suffering from any life-threatening ailment, and said in case the medical treatment as per his condition is not available in the prison, it be provided to him in the hospitals where such a facility is available, states the PTI report.
“The petitioner in support of his petition has annexed medical documents of 2017. Apparently from the report received from Tihar Jail, it does not seem that he is suffering from any life threatening ailment,” the court said.
It added that “the petition is disposed of with direction to the jail authorities to provide appropriate medical treatment as per his condition and in case the said treatment is not available there, the same may be provided in the hospitals having the requisite facility”.
The high court passed the order while disposing of Malik’s petition seeking medical care and that his treatment be done at AIIMS or any other super-speciality hospital in Delhi or Srinagar.
Notably, in his petition, Malik has claimed to be a patient of “serious cardiac and kidney ailments”, currently facing a “life and death situation”.
Malik had earlier moved a similar plea seeking medical treatment, which the court disposed of in light of his examination by the doctors at AIIMS and the necessary medical care extended to him.
(Straight Talk Communications)