HC extends Varavara Rao’s surrender date
The Hindu
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The Bombay High Court on Friday extended till February 5 the date of surrender for poet Varavara Rao, an accused in the Elgaar Parishad-Maoist links case, currently on medical bail, before the Taloja prison authorities in Maharashtra.
A Bench of Justices S.S. Shinde and N.R. Borkar dismissed the National Investigating Agency’s request for extending the date of surrender only by a week. The Bench said in view of the rising cases of coronavirus across the State, it would not be wise to send the 83-year-old poet-activist back to prison.
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