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Poet Varavara Rao moves Bombay High Court, seeks temporary bail citing ill health

The 80-year-old activist, accused in the Elgar Parishad case, also sought a direction from the court to the prison authorities to produce his medical records.

Elgar Parishad-accused activist Varavara Rao’s health deteriorating in jail, says family

The family Sunday said the poet-activist is 'hallucinating and is in a delirious state' and urged the authorities concerned to provide him better medical aid.

With no new evidence, NIA relies on Pune police case to oppose bail to Bhima-Koregaon accused

NIA affidavits opposing the bail petitions of rights activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Varavara Rao and Shoma Sen had content similar to Pune Police’s findings in 2018 & 2019.

Police to seek FBI help to recover Varavara Rao’s hard disk data in Elgar Parishad case

Pune police sent the hard disk to four forensic labs after seizing it from the house of Telugu poet Varavara Rao during a raid in August 2018. However, they have been unable to recover any data so far.

Supreme Court refuses special probe into arrest of five activists in Bhima-Koregaon case

Supreme Court extends house arrest of activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Varavara Rao, Gautam Navlakha, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira by four weeks.

Activists arrested based on proof of links with Naxals, says Maharashtra govt

Maharashtra's Home Minister Deepak Kesarkar said all procedures were followed in the arrest of five activists.

3 activists arrested for ‘Maoist links’ in Bhima-Koregaon violence case

Those targeted include Left-wing poet Varavara Rao in Hyderabad& Delhi-based civil liberties campaigner Gautam Navalakha.

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