Raos wife seeks Maha guv's intervention for prison facilities

Hemalata, wife of activist and Telugu poet Varavara Rao, who is lodged at a Pune prison in connection with the Elgar Parishad case, Friday wrote to the Maharashtra governor urging him to ensure proper amenities in prison keeping in view her husband's age and failing health.

In her letter to governor Vidyasagar Rao, she also requested him that the septuagenerianshould be should be allowed to have Telugu books and newspapers "as he is a teacher, poet and writer in Telugu forover 60 years."
"I request you to kindly initiate discussions on the following concerns with the concernedofficials in your government with a humanitarian approach and respect to constitutionalideals as well as legal provisions that term prisons as correctional homes."
She said her husband should also be allowed to meet other family members and friends "since jail mulakhat permission is now given to only wife and three daughters."