Indian court takes up jailed Jesuit s bail plea
Maharashtra High Court seeks the response of the National Investigation Agency to Father Stan Swamy s application
Father Stan Swamy has been in Taloja Central Jail in Mumbai since Oct. 9. (Photo supplied)
The High Court of western India’s Maharashtra state has asked for the response of a federal anti-terrorism agency to a bail application by an elderly Jesuit priest, seven months after it arrested and jailed him.
The court sought the response of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on May 4 after accepting the application of 84-year-old Father Stan Swamy, who pleaded for his release on bail from a prison in state capital Mumbai.
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ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL, AP Science Writer
May 3, 2021
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1of23FILE - In this May 1, 2021, file photo, relatives carry the body of a person who died of COVID-19 as multiple pyres of other COVID-19 victims burn at a crematorium in New Delhi, India. COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis. People are dying because of shortages of bottled oxygen and hospital beds or because they couldn’t get a COVID-19 test.Amit Sharma/APShow MoreShow Less
2of23FILE - In this April 30, 2021, file photo, a relative of a person who died of COVID-19 mourns at a crematorium in Jammu, in Jammu, India. COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis. People are dying because of shortages of bottled oxygen and hospital beds or because they couldn’t get a COVID-19 test.Channi Anand/APShow M
Indians are forced to change rituals for their dead as COVID-19 rages through cities and villages
Natasha Mikles, Texas State University
May 4, 2021
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(THE CONVERSATION) In the past several weeks, the world has looked on in horror as the coronavirus rages across India. With hospitals running out of beds, oxygen and medicines, the official daily death toll has averaged around 3,000. Many claim that number could be an undercount; crematoriums and cemeteries have run out of space.
The majority of India’s population are Hindu, who favor cremation as a way of disposing of the body. But the Muslim population, which is close to 15%,favors burying its dead.
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