Jailed Pinjra Tod Activist Natasha Narwal Gets 3-Week Interim Bail To Perform Last Rites Of Father

Delhi HC has granted interim bail to anti-CAA activist Natasha Narwal.

Natasha Narwal (File Photo)

Rohtak: Delhi High Court grants 3-week interim bail to jailed anti-CAA activist Natasha Narwal for last rites of her father, who succumbed to Covid19.

Mahavir Narwal (71), father of Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal, who is in jail, died on Sunday after battling Covid-19 for almost a week. He was admitted to a Rohtak hospital and passed away around 6 pm.

Natasha was arrested in May last year for allegedly being part of a premeditated conspiracy in the northeast Delhi riots in February that year. 

According to a report by The Indian Express, Mahavir Narwal was a retired senior scientist from CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, and a senior member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was hospitalised on May 3 after his oxygen levels dipped marginally. Due to diabetes-related complications, his levels did not stabilise and he was put on a ventilator Sunday morning.

The activist has been lodged in Tihar Jail in New Delhi. Mahavir Narwal was not able to speak to his daughter before his death.

Left activists and civil society groups had been demanding that political prisoners be released from jails in view of the surge in coronavirus cases. 

Natasha's only surviving relative is her brother who is also infected with Covid 19 and is currently at home in Rohtak.