Varavara Rao, arrested in the case of links between Elgar Parishad and Maoist, taken to hospital (File)
Mumbai:
Poet and activist Varavara Rao, arrested in connection with Elgar Parishad and Maoist, was taken to JJ Hospital in Mumbai, which complained of dizziness, his lawyer said today.
Varavara Rao, 80, has been in prison for almost two years and is housed in Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai.
The activist and his family members claimed that he had been sick for some time and asked the prison authorities to provide him with immediate medical care.
“Rao was taken to JJ Hospital on Monday evening after being dizzy. The hospital is carrying out some tests on him,” said activist lawyer R Satyanarayan Iyer.
Varavara Rao filed two applications with the Bombay High Court on Monday for interim release due to deteriorating health and a directive to prison authorities to produce his medical records and admit him to a hospital. public or private.
Family members asked prison authorities for immediate medical care on Sunday and said that when the activist, originally from Telangana, contacted them last week, he was “in a state of delirium and had hallucinations. “.
Varavara Rao has been in prison for about 22 months and had previously contacted the NIA special court to obtain bail for medical reasons and the current situation of COVID-19.
On June 26, the NIA court rejected his plea on the grounds that he was charged under strict provisions of the Prevention of Illegal Activities Act (UAPA), following which he moved the High Court.
Varavara Rao and nine other activists were arrested in the case of ties between Elgar Parishad and Maoist, who was initially interrogated by Pune police and later transferred to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in January this year.
The case concerned alleged inflammatory speeches made at the Elgar Parishad conclave in Pune on December 31, 2017, which police said sparked violence the next day near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial.
Police also claimed that the conclave was organized by people with suspected Maoist connections.
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