Elgaar Parishad accused Hany Babu denied permission to go to Kerala

“So far as the celebration of Eid with old age-old mother and follow up for gall bladder operation are concerned, these reasons now are not of much significance. Because, in the previous month itself, this court has permitted this applicant/accused Hany Babu to go to his native place in Kerala and stay with his mother and also get operated for gall bladder. That is in the last month itself, thus the applicant/accused has resided with his mother for a considerably long period.

Now, if he wants to reside with his mother for some more time, he should think seriously to get her shifted to Mumbai,” special judge C S Baviskar said in the order passed on March 18. He had been permitted on February 10 to visit Kerala, and directed to return by March 2.

The judge also said that Babu’s medical records are normal and can undergo medical checkup in Mumbai.

“World-Class medical facilities in every branch of the medical field are available in Mumbai, in private, charity and Municipal/Government hospitals,” the court said. It said that the high court’s
condition cannot be given a ‘go-by’ to. “The applicant/ accused appears to have taken the order of the Hon’ble High Court too lightly and too casually,” the court said.

The trial in the case is yet to begin. Most of the 16 accused arrested in the case are not residents of Mumbai or Maharashtra. While the 14 out on bail currently have to make applications from time to time citing reasons for travel, the court has passed orders, either allowing or rejecting their pleas, based on its consideration of the reasons cited. This week, it had rejected the plea of Telugu poet
Varavara Rao to shift to Hyderabad pending trial.