The Bombay High Court rejected 82-year-old poet Varavara Rao's plea for permanent medical bail and held, "seriousness of the crime has remained the same."
A division bench of justices of S.B. Shukre and G.A. Sanap was hearing Mr. Rao's plea seeking bail on medical grounds or the condition in his interim medical bail granted on February 22, 2021 to be modified and he be allowed to stay with his family at Secunderabad in Telangana. The court reserved the judgment on March 21, pronounced it on April 13 and it was made available on April 22.
The 33-page-judgment reads, "It is pertinent to mention that seriousness of the crime has remained the same. The allegations levelled against the accused [Mr Rao] about his involvement in commission of crime has remained unchanged. The observations with regard to prima facie view of the evidence to support the complicity of the accused in the commission of a crime have not changed."
