India, June 13 -- Eighty-eight-year-old Telugu revolutionary poet, literary critic and political activist P Varavara Rao has moved the Bombay High Court seeking permission to permanently shift his residence to Hyderabad, challenging a special NIA court order that denied him permission to travel to and reside in Telangana.

Rao is an accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case and faces charges under the non-bailable Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).

A division bench of justices A S Gadkari and Kamal Khata on Friday directed Rao's counsel to serve a copy of the petition to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and directed the probe agency to file its reply within two weeks, when it will hear the matter.

In his pe...