Srinagar, Mar 16: Expressing serious concern over the ‘health condition’ of its President amid coronavirus scare across the country, Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association on Monday demanded the release of Mian Qayoom and other prisoners detained on August 5 in and outside J&K.
“The members of the Bar Association have shown their serious concern about the increasing number of the affected persons all over the globe which runs in lakhs and in India also where the number is rapidly increasing which has caused serious apprehensions regarding the health of the people, who were detained since August 5, 2019 and also prior to that, who have been lodged in jails in and outside the J&K,” J&K HC Bar Association said in a statement issued here on Monday.
The statement said the Bar Association under the circumstances feels worried about the health of its ailing President Mian Qayoom, who is under detention since August 4, 2019 and is presently in Tihar Jail, Delhi. “As per the media reports Delhi being the capital of India, mostly remains overcrowded with the people, as such is more vulnerable to Coronavirus,” it said.
“It was reiterated that as per the health condition of the President, who is in his advanced age surviving on single kidney and is suffering from various chronic ailments which include diabetes, hypertension, severe nerve damage, prostate and 60 per cent blockage in one of the arteries of heart, he is more prone to the deadly virus,” it added.
The statement, while quoting the advisories issued by the Health Ministry and doctors from time to time, said the virus is more dangerous for the people with a weak immune system, elderly and ill.
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