India, Feb. 15 -- A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court has allowed former Delhi University professor and civil rights activist Hany Babu to travel to his house in Kerala to meet his 80-year-old mother. The court however said that he would have to return before the first Monday of March to mark his attendance at the Mumbai NIA office.

Babu was arrested on April 14, 2020, in connection with the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, as the NIA alleged that he had links with banned Maoist groups and that he was connected to the violence that broke out near Bhima Koregaon in January 2018.

Babu was in judicial custody for over five years as an undertrial before being granted bail by the Bombay High Court on December 4 last year. ...