Bhima Koregaon Case: Activist Varavara Rao’s Request to Travel for Dental Surgery Rejected

Bhima Koregaon case: Activist Varavara Rao’s request to travel for dental surgery rejected

The court said that adequate and affordable treatment was available in Mumbai and found no satisfactory reason for him to travel to his home city of Hyderabad.

NIA court denies Varavara Rao’s plea to visit Hyderabad for dental treatment

Hyderabad: Veteran poet and activist Varavara Rao, aged 85, an accused in the Elgar Parishad–Maoist links case, has been denied permission to travel to Hyderabad for dental treatment and stay there for two months. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court in Mumbai, presided over by Special Judge Chakor Baviskar, rejected his petition on Thursday. The judge observed that the proposed treatment could be undertaken in Mumbai itself. Al…