Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal's father dies of Covid day before her bail hearing // That Monday will not come, Judge Sahib

NB: The whole world should be made aware that India's criminal justice system is being reduced to a cruel and sadistic mockery in our time. Vigilantes of the so-called Sangh Parivar get away with violence and incitement under the noses of the police, whilst cases are fabricated against activists fighting for human rights and democratic norms. Why could not the courts have heard this case earlier? Why was Natasha Narwal not even permitted to say goodbye to her father? Do India's police officials just live for pleasing the government of the day? Is there such a thing as a human conscience? Do the judges and officers sleep peacefully? And all this sadistic behaviour is practiced to please whom exactly?

The Delhi Police and the court have also stipulated that Natasha not 'make any comments or tweets about the case'. Really gentlemen! May she weep? May she say anything about her life in jail? Other than Long Live Our Supreme Leader? Suppose she says she has had 5-star treatment, will you withdraw your benevolence? Shame on the police, public prosecutors and the justice system. Read this poem if you have an ounce of courage left in your spines. What a tragedy. My deepest condolences to Natasha and her family. DS

Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal's bail plea will be heard today. However, she will not be able to meet her father Mahavir Narwal who died on Sunday evening due to Covid 19. Pinjra Tod tweeted, "We have lost Mahavir Narwal- comrade, father, friend, fellow traveller. He passed away 2 hrs back due to covid-related complications. This is an immense loss for us and the larger community as for Natasha. He was a rock for many, a voice of sanity in the din.." Mahavir Narwal was a noted scientist and a senior member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

Natasha was arrested in May last year for allegedly being part of a premeditated conspiracy in the northeast Delhi riots in February that year. She has been booked under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The activist has been lodged in Tihar Jail.

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“Mahavir Narwal was not able to speak to his daughter who is in jail. His son, Aakash, who is also Covid-19 positive, was there with him in Rohtak,” sources close to the family told PTI. “Extend my deep condolences to Natasha and her brother Aakash. The terrible injustice of the system in which a daughter wrongly locked up for a year unable to see her father even for a final farewell,” CPI(M) politburo member Brinda Karat said.

Women’s rights activist and CPIML politburo member Kavita Krishnan also criticised the government and said it was “torture” forcing “feminists” to be in prison while their loved ones die of Covid-19. “This is so bloody cruel & sadistic: it's a form of torture to keep political prisoners jailed during a pandemic, forced to suffer not only prison, but the pain of being away from loved ones who are dying. Natasha's brother also has Covid-19,” she said on Twitter.

Activist Harsh Mander too condoled Mahavir Narwal’s death. "Where there's suffering, my daughter will be there. I'm proud of her". This hero, Mahavir Narwal, father of Natasha in jail for the CAA protests, supports her, with courage hard to find. "I hope she' not in jail so long she doesn't see my face". He died just hours ago of Covid (sic),” he tweeted.

https://www.indiatoday.in/coronavirus-outbreak/story/pinjra-tod-activist-natasha-narwal-mahavir-narwal-dies-covid-1800680-2021-05-10

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