Updated Feb 23, 2021 · 10:12 pm File photo of Activist Varavara Rao. | PTI
The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted interim bail on medical grounds to 81-year old Telugu poet-activist Varavara Rao in connection to the 2016 Surjagarh iron ore mine arson case, PTI reported. The order came a day after Rao was granted bail for six months in the Bhima Koregaon case.
On Tuesday, Rao’s lawyers Firdos Mirza and Nihalsingh Rathod sought bail on health grounds, according to PTI. “We pointed out to the court here [Nagpur] the order passed by the division bench of Justices SS Shinde and Manish Pitale on Monday, granting Rao interim bail for six months after considering his health condition,” Mirza told the news agency. A bench of Justice Swapna Joshi granted the relief to the poet-activist.
The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted interim bail on medical grounds to ailing poet-activist Varavara Rao in connection with a 2016 Surjagarh iron ore mine arson case. Rao, 82, and advocate Surendra Gadling were arrested by the Gadchiroli police in Maharashtra in February 2019 in connection with the case. Justice Swapna Joshi of the HC s Nagpur bench granted bail to Rao on similar grounds on which the principal bench of the high court on Monday granted bail to him in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. Rao suffers from a host of ailments, including symptoms of dementia, as per his lawyers.
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