Varavara Rao

Elgar Parishad case: Varavara Rao need not surrender until 28 October, says Bombay HC

Rao, 82, was granted interim bail for six months on medical grounds by the HC on 22 February. He was scheduled to surrender and return to judicial custody on 5 September

Bhima Koregaon violence: Dalit intellectuals dismiss Maharashtra Police's claims of instigation by radical Left

The base of all the press statements made by the Maharashtra Police is that these ‘Maoists and Maoist-sympathisers’ instigated Dalits to riot at Bhima Koregaon, through their anti-State songs at Elgar Parishad, a programme organised by individuals and organisations in Pune on 31 December, 2017, a day before commemoration of Shourya Divas at Bhima Koregaon.

Hany Babu, accused in Elgar Parishad case, tests positive for COVID-19

Babu was arrested by the National Investigation Agency in July 2020.

Elgar Parishad case: Varavara Rao discharged from hospital, released on interim bail for six months

Earlier, the Bombay High Court had directed that Rao should be released immediately on bail after being discharged from hospital

Bhima Koregaon case: Varavara Rao gets Bombay HC nod for release on cash bail instead of two sureties

Rao's lawyer Anand Grover, saying the procedure for obtaining sureties was taking time, had on 24 February requested that temporary cash bonds be accepted rather than solvent sureties

Bhima Koregaon case: Bombay HC grants Varavara Rao six months interim bail, says 'genuine and fit case'

The bail conditions include a direction to the accused in Elgar Parishad case to stay within the jurisdiction of the Mumbai NIA court for the bail period

Bhima Koregaon hacking allegations: What Arsenal analysis of Rona Wilson's PC says

Arsenal Consulting's findings will, obviously, be contested by the police’s Forensic Science Laboratory; that is the normal back-and-forth of any criminal trial.

Bombay High Court reserves order on granting medical bail to activist poet Varavara Rao

To highlight Rao's poor health condition, counsel Indira Jaising told the court that of the 365 days since last February, the activist has spent 149 days in the hospital

NIA urges Bombay HC to reject Varavara Rao's bail plea on medical grounds, claims poet's condition is 'stable'

The court, however, pointed out that Rao's reports from the JJ Hospital, the Taloja prison hospital and St George Hospital, issued last year, all mentioned dementia and brain atrophy

Varavara Rao's condition improved, but to remain at private hospital, says Bombay High Court

A division bench of justices SS Shinde and MS Karnik made the remarks after perusing a medical report submitted by Nanavati Hospital where Rao, arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, was admitted on 18 November