MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday issued notice for a response from the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) to a petition filed by the 2018 Elgaar Parishad- Maoist links case accused Varavara Rao, who wants permission to travel to Hyderabad to undergo cataract surgery in both eyes.
A single-judge bench R G Avachat was hearing a plea by the octogenarian Rao, a Telugu poet and activist, who was arrested in 2018 and granted bail on medical grounds by the Supreme Court in August last year.
