PV Varavara Rao
MUMBAI: Observing that the Taloja Prison hospital was ill-equipped , Bombay high court on Monday granted bail for six months on health grounds to PV Varavara Rao in the 2018 Elgar Parishad case.
Rao is accused of Maoist links. The high court felt that Rao’s case warranted a humanitarian approach.
Rao, in custody since august 2018, had sought bail on grounds of his ‘deteriorating’ health. He sought to be sent home to Hyderabad. A petition had also been filed by his wife, for his release citing violation of his fundamental rights.
The HC directed his discharge from a private hospital in suburban Mumbai depending on his health but said he must reside within jurisdiction of the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court, at Mumbai and surrender his passport.
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P Varavara Rao
MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Monday reserved its judgement on a bail plea filed by P Varavara Rao, 81, on his health grounds. Rao has been incarcerated as an undertrial accused of Maoist links in the 2018 Elgar Parishad case registered in Pune.
The trial is yet to start. The HC bench of Justices S S Shinde and Manish Pitale continued its interim relief to Rao who can remain in the Nanavati Superspeciality Hospital in suburban Mumbai and his family can visit him there, till the order is pronounced on his plea as well as the petition filed by his wife, for his release citing violation of his fundamental rights.
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