Bhima Koregaon case | SC to take up Varavara Rao’s plea for permanent bail on Tuesday
The Hindu
A Bench led by Justice U.U. Lalit could not take up the case, which was listed as item number 30 on Monday, as the judges had to sit in a different combination at 2 p.m.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up as the first case on July 12 a plea for permanent bail on medical grounds by Telugu poet and an accused in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case P. Varavara Rao.
A Bench led by Justice U.U. Lalit could not take up the case, which was listed as item number 30 on Monday, as the judges had to sit in a different combination at 2 p.m.
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"We will take it up tomorrow as the first item on the list," Justice Lalit told senior advocate Anand Grover, who appeared for Mr. Rao.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, for the National Investigation Agency, said that the interim protection granted to Mr. Rao was operative till July 12. He said the agency would file more records by the end of the day.
Mr. Grover, who urged the case to be taken up later in the day, agreed when the court informed him about the change in the Bench post-lunch.
"The petitioner, an 83-year-old renowned Telugu poet and orator, who has undergone over two years of incarceration as an undertrial and is currently enlarged on bail on medical grounds by the Bombay High Court, respectfully submits that any further incarceration would ring the death knell for him as advancing age and deteriorating health are a fatal combination," the petition said.