Bhima Koregaon case: SC extends activist Varavara Rao's interim bail
Hindustan TimesThe Supreme Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to activist and poet Dr P Varavara Rao, an accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence case who had sought permanent bail on medical grounds. Rao had challenged the April 13 order of Bombay high court rejecting his plea for permanent medical bail in the matter. In his plea filed against the high court order, Rao has said, "The petitioner is an 83-year-old renowned Telugu poet and orator, who has undergone over two years of incarceration as an under-trial, and is currently enlarged on bail on medical grounds by the Bombay High Court respectfully submits that any further incarceration would ring the death knell for him as an advancing age and deteriorating health are a fatal combination". In February 2021, the Bombay High Court granted him bail on medical grounds and was subsequently released from jail on March 6, 2021.