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The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the Maharashtra government to transfer Maoist leader Nirmala Uppuganti aka Narmada Akka to a hospice by September 15, 2021 for palliative care on account of terminal cancer (Nirmala Uppuganti v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.).