Activist Varavara Rao’s request to travel for dental surgery rejected

10/10/2025

Scroll.in / by Scroll Staff

The court said that adequate and affordable treatment was available in the city and found no satisfactory reason for the 85-year-old to travel to Telangana.
A special National Investigation Agency court in Mumbai on Thursday rejected a plea by 85-year-old activist and poet Varavara Rao, who is out on bail in the Bhima Koregaon case, seeking permission to travel to Hyderabad for two months for a dental surgery, The Indian Express reported.
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‘Can get treatment at Mumbai civic hospital’: Court declines travel nod to Varavara Rao

10/10/2025

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

85-yr-old filed plea for travel to Hyderabad for dental operation
A special court on Thursday rejected a plea filed by Telugu poet 85-year-old Varavara Rao, an accused in the Elgaar Parishad case, who had sought to travel to Hyderabad for two months for a dental operation.
The court said that the Supreme Court while granting him bail in its “magnanimous humanity” had given him the liberty to leave Mumbai if required with permission from the special court.
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▪ SC refuses to hear plea of P Varavara Rao on bail modification (Hindustan Times / Sep 2025)
▪ For accused out on bail, Court’s condition to not leave city a further challenge (The Indian Express / Jan 2025)
▪ Supreme Court grants permanent medical bail to P. Varavara Rao in Bhima Koregaon case (The Leaflet / Aug 2022)