Bombay HC extends Varavara Rao's surrender date, asks how he can be sent to jail amid COVID-19 surge?
The Hindu
The bench said in view of the rising cases of coronavirus across the State, it would not be wise to send the 83-year-old poet-activist back to prison.
The Bombay High Court on Friday extended till February 5, the date of surrender for poet , an accused in the Elgar Parishad- Maoist links case who is currently on medical bail, before Taloja prison authorities in Maharashtra.
A bench of Justices S.S. Shinde and N.R. Borkar dismissed the National Investigating Agency's (NIA) request for extending such date of surrender only by a week.
The bench said in view of the rising cases of coronavirus across the State, it would not be wise to send the 83-year-old poet-activist back to prison.
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