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The judge passed a common order on medical attention for the activists. Prison officer Ravindra Jagtap was present on behalf of the jail authorities.Lawyers Siddhartha Patil, Nihal Singh Rathod, Rahul Deshmukh and S H S Kazi moved various pleas on behalf of the accused. “I was allowed to have the medicines once, but was refused the same on a subsequent occasion,” he told the judge.Raut complained that despite a recommendation to refer him to the gastroenterologist at the Sassoon General Hospital for bleeding in stomach because of appendicitis , he was not taken there for four weeks now.Prison officer Jagtap cited the issue of availability of escort, but the court directed that Raut be referred latest by Friday or the day after to the Sassoon General Hospital and a civil surgeon’s report be presented to the court. PUNE: The five activists arrested on June 6 in connection with the Elgar Parishad probe have filed a writ petition in the Bombay high court challenging the Pune sessions court's September 2 order granting 90-day extension to the police to file chargesheet against them.“We have challenged the trial court’s order on the grounds that it is illegal,” lawyer Siddhartha Patil told TOI on Thursday.The writ petition was filed in the high court on September 21 and is listed for hearing on October 1 before the high court bench of Justice Ranjit More and Justice Bharati Dangre.Patil also filed an application before the trial court under Section 167 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure stating all the five jailed activists were entitled for a statutory bail with effect from September 5 since its order was the subject matter of a challenge and considering that the initial 90-day period for filing of chargesheet ended on September 4.Earlier, assistant commissioner of police Shivaji Pawar, the investigating officer, produced the five activists — Surendra Gadling, Sudhir Dhawale, Rona Wilson, Mahesh Raut and Shoma Sen — before the additional sessions judge, K D Vadane, on Thursday. The district government pleader, Ujjwala Pawar, responded for the state.The hearing on Gadling and Sen’s regular bail applications — along with the application of statutory bail for all the five activists and a plea by the prison department for transfer of the five activists to different jails for security reasons — was deferred to October 6 in view of the Supreme Court’s anticipated ruling on the petition challenging the August 28 arrests of five other activists.The court issued a showcause notice to the Yerawada jail authorities, seeking an explanation on why action should not be taken against them for non-compliance of its June 25 order regarding provision of a set of books to Gadling.The court issued various directives to the jail authorities and the prosecution over the miscellaneous pleas regarding provision of warm clothes to the five activists in view of the winter season, besides, medicines and medical treatment.Gadling complained about the stubborn approach of the jail officials in allowing him access to ayurveda medicines prescribed by the jail doctor..