Prisoners also have the right to get medical treatment and it is their right to self-respect, observed the High Court while granting interim medical bail to Naresh Goyal, the founder of Jet Airways, who is under arrest in a financial embezzlement case.
A single bench of Justice Nizamuddin Jamadar also clarified that there is a difference between being treated as a raw prisoner and being treated as a common person who is not under any bond. After studying Goyal's medical tests, reports, one cannot say that he is not sick. Also, the argument of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that Goyal should be denied bail as he is undergoing treatment in a private hospital of his choice cannot be accepted.
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In fact, accepting the argument that a person is not eligible for bail if he receives necessary treatment amounts to trampling on a person's freedom of expression, the court noted while accepting Goyal's plea for grant of interim bail on medical grounds. The court also said that there is no possibility of Goyal running away from the case or destroying the evidence.
Goyal was arrested by the ED for defrauding Canara Bank of INR 538. Goyal had approached the High Court after the special court refused to grant him medical bail. The court on Monday granted interim medical bail to Goyal for two months.
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