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Father Stan Swamy had been arrested in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case along with many others for alleged Maoist links. He had been in Taloja Prison since his arrest under UAPA in October 2020. He had been denied straws to drink water since his Parkinson's prevented him from holding a cup of water.

The Delhi government on Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that a committee has been formed to look into the graded strategy of de-escalation, keeping in view the evolving situation and keeping the required regional balance of availability for Covid Care, and has been asked to submit its report late on Wednesday.

The Delhi government has appealed to the divisional bench of the Delhi High Court against a single bench order that had stayed the government notification of reserving 80 percent of ICU beds in private hospitals for COVID patients.

The Delhi High Court today stayed the Delhi government’s order directing private hospitals to reserve 80 percent of ICU beds for COVID-19 patients. The petition alleged that the decision of reserving the beds is denying them treatment, as well as exposing non-COVID-19 patients to the risk of COVID-19.

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