Telugu poet and activist Varavara Rao , arrested in connection with the Elgar Parishad case, has approached the Bombay High Court for his r...
Telugu poet and activist Varavara Rao, arrested in connection with the Elgar Parishad case, has approached the Bombay High Court for his release from jail, Live Law reported. The court will hear the bail petition at 3 pm on Thursday.
Last month, Rao’s wife Pendyala Hemalatha had moved the Supreme Court for his release. She had said that his continued custody as an undertrial amounts to cruel and inhuman treatment and is violative of his dignity. However, a three-judge bench headed by Justice UU Lalit refused to grant bail to the 81-year-old on October 29. The top court had expressed concern that Rao’s bail application has not been heard by the High Court since September 17, but declined to take any action. The judges requested the High Court to consider Rao’s medical plea at the earliest.
Thursday’s court hearing is significant as it came a day after Supreme Court judge Justice DY Chandrachud asked High Courts to exercise their jurisdiction to uphold personal liberty. Chandrachud made the observations while granting bail to Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami and two others in an abetment to suicide case, saying that personal liberty is increasingly becoming a casualty in India.
During the hearing, Chandrachud said:
“Forget Arnab Goswami for a moment, we are a Constitutional court...If we as a Constitutional Court do not...
