NAGPUR: Allowing former journalist Prashant Rahi, serving life sentence on the charge of being a Maoist, to be examined by a gastroenterologist, the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court has observed that “even a convict is entitled to best of the medical treatment”.
Rahi (63), who was convicted in 2017 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in a case in Maharashtra involving Delhi University professor Sai Baba, is lodged in Amravati central jail. Allegedly a member of the banned CPI (Maoist), he was arrested in 2013 and charged under UAPA. He was the Uttarakhand correspondent of a Delhi-based English daily.
