High Court Rejects Activist Varavara Rao's Plea For Permanent Medical Bail
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Varavara Rao, who has been out of prison on temporary medical bail since February last year, had filed three pleas.
The Bombay High Court today rejected poet-activist Varavara Rao's plea seeking permanent medical bail in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
A bench of Justices SB Shukre and GA Sanap, however, extended the time for the 83-year-old activist to surrender before the Taloja prison authorities by three months, to enable him to undergo a cataract surgery.
The bench dismissed Varavara Rao's application seeking that he be permitted to stay in Hyderabad instead of Mumbai, while out on bail.
The high court also said it had found substance in several claims made by Varavara Rao's counsel Anand Grover on the lack of medical facilities in the Taloja prison, located in neighbouring Navi Mumbai, and poor hygiene conditions there.
