New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday (February 20) refused to interfere with an order of the Bombay High Court denying bail to gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli, who is serving life imprisonment in a murder case.
Gawli, who was convicted under provisions of MCOCA, is serving life imprisonment in the murder case of Mumbai Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar in 2007.
Apex court upheld High Court order denying bail to Gawli
A bench comprising Sudhanshu Dhulia and K Vinod Chandran, while denying bail to Gawli, upheld the High Court order.
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court granted Gawli 28-day furlough on January 7 after he moved the High Court seeking his release in the case.
Have complied with all the conditions of the 2006 remission policy, Gawli has claimed
Gawli, who is the founder of the Akhil Bharatiya Sena and an MLA from 2004-2009 from the Chinchpokli seat of Mumbai, has claimed that he has complied with all the conditions of the 2006 remission policy. He claimed that he has completed 65 years of age and a Medical Board has certified him as weak and thus, he is eligible for availing the benefit of the 2006 remission policy.
Gawli was arrested in 2006 in corporator murder case
Gawli was arrested in 2006 in the corporator murder case and was put on trial for the murder of the corporator. A Mumbai sessions court sentenced him to life imprisonment in the case In August 2012 and imposed a fine of Rs 17 lakh on him.
Apex court last year stayed a High Court order on premature release of Gawli
Earlier last year, the top court stayed the operation of an order of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on premature release of Gawli and later made the stay order absolute on an appeal by the Maharashtra government against the High Court order.
The High Court had in April last year, while hearing Gawli’s plea seeking premature release, held that Gawli is “entitled to the benefits flowing from the remission policy dated January 10, 2006, which was prevailing on the date of his conviction” and that “by applying the rule of ejusdem generis, convicts of MCOCA Act cannot be excluded from availing the benefits of the said policy”.
