Varavara Rao

Scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, was on Saturday released from the Taloja central prison in Navi Mumbai a day after the Supreme Court rejected the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) plea challenging his bail. Teltumbde, 73, who spent two-and-a-half years behind bars in the case, walked out of the jail around 1.15 pm. He was happy, he told waiting media-persons. "I am happy after being released from prison after 31 months. It is obvious, but the sad thing is that this is the fakest case and it put us behind bars for years," Teltumbde added. On Friday, the apex court had dismissed the NIA's plea challenging the Bombay High Court's order giving bail to Teltumbde. He was released after the completion of bail formalities a day later. On November 18, the high court had granted bail to Teltumbde, arrested by the central agency on April 14, 2020. The HC had observed that prima facie (on the face of it) there was no evidence showing

The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the interim bail granted on medical grounds to activist and poet Dr P Varavara Rao, an accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence case

While the summary said Rao was fit for discharge, it failed to provide reasons for such conclusion, and the report was also silent on Rao's previous clinical diagnosis of early Parkinson's disease

The Bombay High Court on February 22 granted Rao, 82, interim bail on medical grounds for six months.

Rao, 82, and advocate Surendra Gadling were arrested by the Gadchiroli police in Maharashtra in February 2019 in connection with the case

Jailed poet-activist Varavara Rao, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links' case, will continue to remain at Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai till January 7 next year

The wife of Varavara Rao, arrested in connection with the Elgar Parishad-Koregaon Bhima case, moved SC seeking bail for him claiming that his continued custody amounts to cruel and inhuman treatment

Rao was being treated at St George Hospital in south Mumbai since Thursday after being tested coronavirus positive.

Rao, along with four other activists, was arrested on August 28 after Pune Police conducted raids at various places in the country in connection with the Koregaon-Bhima violence case