MUMBAI, 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 petition, filed through advocate R Sathyanarayanan Iyer, Rao said he and his 76-year-old wife have been suffering from age-related health problems and require consistent emotional, mental and physical support from family members, all of whom reside in Hyderabad. Rao contended that he survives on a pension of about Rs.50,000 per month while spending more than Rs.77,000 every month to live in Mumbai. "Due to this, on each and every occasion, he has to resort to borrowings from his children and this affects his dignity," the plea states....