Mahavir Narwal, Father Of Jailed Activist Natasha Narwal, Dies Of Covid
Mahavir Narwal was once a senior member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
New Delhi:
Famous scientist and a senior member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Mahavir Narwal, whose daughter Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal stays in prison, died of the novel coronavirus an infection on Sunday, circle of relatives assets stated.
Natasha was once arrested in Might final 12 months for allegedly being a part of a premeditated conspiracy within the northeast Delhi riots in February that 12 months. She has been named underneath the stringent Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act. The activist has been lodged in Tihar Prison in Delhi.
“Mahavir Narwal was once no longer ready to talk to his daughter who’s in prison. His son, Aakash, who may be COVID-19 certain, was once there with him in Rohtak,” assets on the subject of the circle of relatives stated.
His dying drew messages of condolence on Twitter.
CPIM expresses deep condolences at the dying of Comrade Mahavir Narwal, a senior member of CPIM.
It’s legal act of the Modi executive that his daughter Natasha Narwal was once arrested underneath UAPA final 12 months and could not even meet her father.
Lal Salaam Mahavir Narwal! pic.twitter.com/B6An9V5y9L— CPI (M) (@cpimspeak) May 9, 2021
Unbelievably tragic, @harsh_mander. It’s so unhappy to look our Indian democracy diminished to this state. Bail,no longer prison, was once the chant in such circumstances. What is going on to our human values {that a} daughter imprisoned for a political protest is not allowed to satisfy her death father? https://t.co/rNdEDWGLdQ
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) May 9, 2021
Left activists and civil society teams had lately demanded that “political prisoners” be launched from jails as a result of the surge in coronavirus circumstances.
“Lengthen my deep condolences to Natasha and her brother Aakash. The horrible injustice of the machine through which a daughter wrongly locked up for a 12 months not able to look her father even for a last farewell,” CPI-M politburo member Brinda Karat stated.
Girls’s rights activist and CPIML politburo member Kavita Krishnan additionally lashed out on the govt.
“That is so bloody merciless & sadistic: it is a type of torture to stay political prisoners jailed all through an epidemic, compelled to undergo no longer best jail, however the ache of being clear of family members who’re death. Natasha’s brother additionally has Covid-19,” she stated on Twitter.
Activist Harsh Mander too condoled Mahavir Narwal’s dying.
“The place there is struggling, my daughter will probably be there. I am happy with her”. This hero, Mahavir Narwal, father of Natasha in prison for the CAA protests, helps her, with braveness exhausting to search out. ‘I am hoping she’ no longer in prison see you later she does not see my face”. He died simply hours in the past of Covid (sic),” he tweeted.
