Varavara Rao moves Bombay HC against NIA Court rejecting interim bail plea on medical grounds
(WorldNews India)

Writer-poet Varavara Rao, who is behind bars since 2018 in the Elgaar Parishad case, has moved the Bombay High Court against an order of the Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court in Mumbai, which on June 26 had rejected his interim bail plea. The 81-year-old sought an interim bail citing ill health and susceptibility to Covid-19. Rao sought to set aside the NIA Court order. The special court had also rejected the interim bail plea of co-accused 61-year-old former professor Shoma Sen. Varavara Rao`s health has been deteriorating in Taloja central jail, his lawyer and family said after receiving a phone call from him on Saturday. In view of this, Rao’s lawyers moved an urgent...