NIA court rejects Varavara Rao's application to go to Hyderabad for eye surgery

A special NIA court in Mumbai has rejected Telugu poet and Elgar Parishad accused Varavara Raos plea to go to Hyderabad for three months to undergo cataract surgeryThe court rejected the request stating it has to frame charges against the accused within the next three monthsSpecial NIA judge Rajesh Katariya said the court is required to frame charges against the accused and decide on the pending discharge application simultaneously within three months from the order dated August 18 2022 If Rao is permitted to go and stay in Hyderabad for three months the framing of charges would get prolonged In such a situation allowing the application would not be appropriateAlso read Mumbai court rejects Varavara Raos plea to go to Hyderabad for eye surgeryRao had also approached the Supreme Court to modify the order granting bail and sought permission to go to Hyderabad for cataract surgery According to the bail conditions Rao has to stay in Mumbai till the end of the Elgar Parishad trial which is yet to beginOn August 10 the Supreme Court granted bail to Rao on medical grounds The following week it granted Rao permission to approach the Special NIA Court to undergo his cataract surgery in HyderabadAdvocate Niraj Yadav who appeared on behalf of Rao stated that the Supreme Court had granted liberty to Rao to file a modification application before the trial courtYadav submitted that Rao has been staying in Mumbai since March 2021 He further submitted that the living expenses in Mumbai are very high Rao had spent Rs 68000 per month on living expenses in 2021 which has gone up to Rs 70000 to Rs 80000 per monthYadav further submitted that Rao 82 had incurred about Rs 10 lakh in expenses while staying in Mumbai He stated that Rao only gets Rs 50000 per month as a pension from the Telangana government Rao has to borrow money from others because of the overheads incurred due to staying in MumbaiRaos plea stated that he is unable to bear the medical expenses for cataract surgery in Mumbai and that it would be done free of cost for him in Telangana Moreover his children would be in a better state to look after him postsurgery on both his eyes said Raos pleaSpecial Public Prosecutor Prakash Shetty appearing for the NIA opposed the plea stating that the treatment sought by Rao was available in Mumbai and that through the current application Rao was only seeking to nullify the conditions imposed by the apex court while granting him medical bail Shetty submitted that Rao could obtain reimbursement of the treatment charges paid hereThe NIA has claimed that speakers at the Elgar Parishad event organised by front organisations of the CPI Maoist at Pune on December 31 2017 had incited violence at Bhima Koregaon the next day in which one person died and several others were injuredThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever