Live Law / by Debby Jain

Lawyer and activist Surendra Gadling today objected to the State of Maharashtra’s delay in filing an affidavit before the Supreme Court in his plea seeking bail in the 2016 Gadchiroli arson case.
At the request of Additional Solicitor General SV Raju (for State), a bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi however granted the State 1 week’s time to file the document, as a last opportunity.
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