New Delhi: Eighty-two-year-old poet and activist P Varavara Rao, an accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, got bail from the Supreme Court on medical grounds on Wednesday. Nevertheless, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) which inquired into the case vehemently opposed his bail, saying that he was involved in serious anti-national activities.
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According to reports, he allegedly delivered inflammatory speeches at the Elgar Parishad conclave in Pune on December 31, 2017. The police said that his speeches sparked violence near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial in Maharashtra city the next day. The police further said that those who organised the conclave had Maoist links. Rao, one of the accused in the case, was arrested from his house in Pune on January 8, 2018. Bench headed by Justice UU Lalit granted him bail, saying the interim bail already granted to him, cannot be withdrawn because of his failing health.
