Mumbai: Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist Stan Swamy, arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case, has approached the Bombay high court for bail on health grounds.Swamy (83), in his appeal filed in the HC on Monday, has challenged an order passed by a sessions court here last month refusing him bail.The jailed activist is seeking bail citing his old age and on the ground that he is suffering from multiple ailments.The sessions court, while refusing bail to Swamy, had claimed that factors like old age and sickness will not go in favour of the accused considering that there was a prima facie case against him for hatching a “conspiracy to overthrow the government”.In his petition, Swamy has said he apprehends contracting COVID-19 as over 40 inmates of the Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai (where he is lodged) have tested positive for the infection.Also read: There Is No Case. Release the Bhima Koregaon 16 and Compensate ThemSwamy was arrested from his house in Ranchi on October 8, 2020.He is among 16 activists, academics and lawyers held over what the Pune Police and NIA claims are Maoist links with the organisation of the ‘Elgar Parishad’ conclave, held at Shaniwarwada in Pune on December 31, 2017. This conclave, police claimed, triggered violence the next day near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial located on the city’s outskirts.