Varavara Rao had been in custody since August 28, 2018, awaiting trial.
New Delhi:
Varavara Rao, the 81-year-old poet-activist who has been in jail for over two years in the Koregaon-Bhima case, walked out of the Mumbai s Nanavati Hospital late Saturday after being granted bail for six months by the Bombay High Court on medical grounds last month.
He was undergoing treatment at the hospital where was admitted by the Maharashtra government following the high court s intervention. His lawyer Indira Jaisingh posted a photo of the poet-activist on Twitter.
Free at last ! Varavara Rao out of Nanavati hospital 11.45 pm, 6th March 2021 pic.twitter.com/e3s0jZNqeM Indira Jaising (@IJaising) March 6, 2021