The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a plea filed by Telugu poet and an accused in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, P Varavara Rao on July 11, challenging a Bombay High Court order that rejected his prayer for permanent medical bail in the matter.

A three-judge bench of justices UU Lalit, S Ravindra Bhat and Sudhanshu Dhulia is likely to take up the matter. Rao, in his appeal against the April 13 Bombay High Court order filed through advocate Nupur Kumar, said, "The petitioner, an 83-year-old renowned Telugu poet and orator who has undergone over two years of incarceration as an under-trial and is currently enlarged on bail on medical grounds by the Bombay High Court, respectfully submits that any further incarceration would ring the death knell for him as advancing age and deteriorating health are a fatal combination." Rao said he has challenged the high court order as he was not granted an extension of bail despite his advanced age and precarious and deteriorating health condition, and his prayer to shift to Hyderabad was also denied.