Delhi University's associate professor Hany Babu, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, moved the Bombay High Court on Wednesday seeking medical aid for an eye infection which he developed after contracting Covid-19. Babu's counsel senior advocate Yug Chaudhry approached a vacation bench comprising Justices S J Kathawalla and S P Tavade, seeking an urgent hearing on the ground that Babu, who tested positive for coronavirus last week, had also developed an eye infection due to black fungus.

Mucormycosis, also known as black fungus, is a rare but serious infection, which has been found in several Covid-19 patients. Babu had been admitted to the state-run GT Hospital here and was being treated for Covid-19, but not for the eye infection. "Hany Babu is suffering from eye infection due to the black fungus. For nine days he suffered in jail," advocate Chaudhry told the HC.