New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on March 4 rejected the bail application of woman convict Navjot Sandhu alias Afsan Guru in Parliament attack case, who had cited ill health as a ground for bail, holding that it was not a fit case for relief after examining her medical report.

After examining the medical report received from Tihar Jail "we don't consider it a fit case for bail", a division Bench comprising Justice Usha Mehra and Justice Pradeep Nandrajog ruled.

The Court, which had rejected her bail petition having almost identical grounds only last month, said once the plea for bail on the same reason was rejected, a petitioner could not raise them again unless some new facts have come to light.

The medical report received from jail doctors has stated that she is physically alright, stable, responding to the medicines and taking good care of herself but is more a case of psyche, the Court said.

Afsan, sentenced to five years of imprisonment, had pleaded that she should either be released on bail or shifted to some hospital outside jail under custody. She also said she could not live without her child, born in jail last year while she was under judicial custody as he had been handed over to her father.

However, the Court said if she wants her eight-month-old son back, the required facilities for his look after would be provided in the jail.

Afsan's husband and Jaish-e-Mohammed militant Shaukat Hussain Guru has been sentenced to death along with another militant Mohd Afzal and former city college lecturer S A R Geelani on December 18 in the case.

PTI