The partner of Gautam Navlakha, who is imprisoned in Taloja jail in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case, has said his health is deteriorating further, after he was shifted from a barrack to the Anda cell. Navlakha, an activist and journalist, was shifted to the high security prison on October 12, and his partner Sahba Husain, who lives in Delhi, got to know of this two days later.

Navlakha was arrested in the Koregaon Bhima violence case on August 28, 2018, for his alleged involvement in the Elgar Parishad-Maoists links case. Husain, an author and women’s rights activist, said, “Navlakha, nearly 70, is one of the oldest of the Bhima Koregaon arrestees, and was shifted to the anda cell (high security) from the barracks on October 12. His telephone calls to me and his lawyers, his lifeline to the outside world, have been discontinued on the pretext that physical mulaqats have resumed in jail.”