Supreme Court Grants Interim Bail To Mahesh Raut On Medical Grounds For 6 Weeks
16/09/2025
Live Law / by Gursimran Kaur Bakshi
The Supreme Court today (September 16) granted interim bail on medical grounds for a period of 6 weeks to Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case accused Mahesh Raut, arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, over alleged Maoist links. He has been in custody since his arrest in June 2018. Read more
by Live Law / @LiveLawIndia (Sep 16):
#Supreme Court to hear plea of Bhima Koregaon accused Jyoti Jagtap seeking #bail and NIA’s challenge to the bail granted to Mahesh Raut. Both were arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
Bench: Justices MM Sundresh and Satish Kumar Sharma
Despite nearly 200 listings in trial court, proceedings haven’t moved beyond preliminary stage. Surendra Gadling was arrested in Surajgarh arson case in January 2019.
Human rights lawyer Surendra Pundalik Gadling has spent more than six-and-a-half years in custody as an undertrial in the 2016 Surajgarh arson case, with the trial still stalled at the stage of framing of charges.
Gadling, also an accused in the Elgar Parishad–Koregaon Bhima case, was granted interim bail last week in this matter by an NIA court in Mumbai to attend the last rites of a family member. Read more
Video: 6yrs, no charges framed
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Maharasthra human rights lawyer and activist Surnedra Gadling was arrested in Surajgarh arson case in January 2019. Despite nearly 200 listings in trial courts over 4 years, proceedings haven’t moved beyond preliminary stage. He’s also accused in the Bhima Koregaon case. Ruchi Bhattar explains more in this video. Watch video
Credits: Drawing by Arun Ferreira / The Polis Project
HC slams police, prison authorities for delay in releasing Bhima Koregaon accused
12/09/2025
Hindustan Times / by Karuna Nidhi
The Bombay High Court criticized Maharashtra Police for not releasing anti-caste activist Ramesh Gaichor on temporary bail to visit his ailing father.
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday strongly criticised the Maharashtra Police and Prison Authorities for their laxity in failing to release anti-caste activist Ramesh Murlidhar Gaichor, 41, arrested in connection with the 2018 Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case. Read more
Ramesh Gaichor released on temporary bail to meet ailing father, jail authority apologises to Bombay HC for delay
11/09/2025
Indian Express / by Express News Service
The Bombay High Court had pulled up Taloja Prison authorities for not complying with its August 26 order for releasing Ramesh Gaichor on temporary bail. Ramesh Gaichor was arrested by the National Investigation Agency in 2020.
The Taloja Prison authorities on Thursday tendered an unconditional apology before the Bombay High Court for not complying with its August 26 order and submitted that the Elgaar Parishad case accused Ramesh Gaichor was released on a three-day temporary bail on the night of September 10. Read more
Bombay HC grants extended temporary bail to Elgar Parishad accused
11/09/2025
National Herald / by NH Political Bureau
HC bench comes down heavily on authorities for what it describes as blatant non-compliance with judicial orders
Bombay High Court has extended temporary bail for activist Ramesh Gaichor, accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, after prison authorities delayed his earlier release despite court orders. Gaichor was finally released from Taloja jail on Wednesday night, nearly two weeks after being granted three-day bail on humanitarian grounds. Read more
HC criticises prison authorities for not releasing Ramesh Gaichor despite bail
11/09/2025
Scroll.in / by Scroll Staff
In August, the Bombay High Court granted activist Ramesh Gaichor bail for three days to meet his ailing father.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the police and prison authorities in Maharashtra for not releasing activist Ramesh Gaichor, who is accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, who was granted three-day temporary bail on August 26 to meet his ailing father, Live Law reported. Read more
Bombay HC Slams Prison Authorities For Failing To Release Ramesh Gaichor Despite Temporary Bail
10/09/2025
Live Law / by Narsi Benwal
Asking if the State has put ‘humanity’ to rest, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday pulled up the Maharashtra Police and also the Prison Authorities for not releasing Ramesh Gaichor, one of the accused in the Bhima Koregaon – Elgar Parishad case, who was last month granted a temporary bail of three days to meet his ailing father in Pune. Read more
Protests across Maharashtra denounce the Public Security Act as unconstitutional and anti-democratic [picture galleries]
10/09/2025
Sabrangindia / by Sabrangindia
Opposition, rights groups, and people’s movements unite to call it an “anti-people, anti-democratic law”
A wave of protests swept across Maharashtra today as opposition parties, civil society organizations, and grassroots groups came together to denounce the recently passed Maharashtra Public Security Bill, branding it a “Public Oppression Bill.” Demonstrations took place in Mumbai, Pune, Kolhapur, Solapur, Palghar, Beed, Hingoli, Dhule, Gadchiroli, Gondia, and several other districts, marking one of the largest coordinated state-wide agitations in recent years. Read more
PSA a bid to criminalise varied organisations: Sudha Bharadwaj
31/08/2025
Hindustan Times / by HT Correspondent
Bharadwaj was among the speakers at a webinar organised by All India Inquilabi Youth and Students Alliance (ALIYSA) and National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) along with senior advocate Mihir Desai and activist Ulka Mahajan
Human rights lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj said on Saturday that it was a great thing that the civil society in Maharashtra had already begun protesting against the Maharashtra Special Public Security Act, passed by the state’s legislative assembly in its recently concluded monsoon session. Read more
Maharashtra Special Public Security Act, Pre-Emptive Criminalisation And Indefinite Surveillance
22/08/2025
Outlook / by Anand Teltumbde
The MSPSA gives the state-corporate nexus the legal means to suppress participatory democracy under the guise of public security.
On July 10, 2025, the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha passed a revised version of the Maharashtra Special Public Security Act (MSPSA), exactly one year after the original draft was introduced on July 11, 2024, by the Shiv Sena-BJP coalition under Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. Initially framed as a response to the perceived threat of “urban Naxalism”, the Bill claimed to address the alleged infiltration of Maoist ideology into urban areas through affiliated organisations offering logistical support and shelter to underground cadres. Read more
Supreme Court To Hear Activist Mahesh Raut’s Bail Plea On September 15
08/09/2025
Outlook / by Outlook News Desk
Raut’s counsel apprised the Court that the accused had rheumatoid arthritis and needed specialised treatment that was not available either in prison.
The Supreme Court on Monday said that the bail plea of Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case accused Mahesh Raut will be heard on September 15. Raut had approached the court for bail on medical grounds. Read more
SC to hear accused bail plea on medical grounds
08/09/2025
The Indian Express / by pti
The high court allowed Raut’s bail plea but stayed its own order for a week on the request of the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The Supreme Court on Monday decided to hear on September 15 the bail plea of Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case accused Mahesh Raut on medical grounds.
A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma was hearing Raut’s petition challenging his incarceration despite being granted bail by the Bombay High Court. Read more
The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Monday the bail plea of activist Jyoti Jagtap who was arrested in 2020 in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma is also likely to hear a petition filed by the National Investigation Agency challenging the bail granted to activist Mahesh Raut.
He was given bail by the Bombay High Court but the order was stayed after the NIA sought stay on the verdict to challenge it before the apex court. Read more
Gadling, arrested in 2018 for alleged Maoist links, had sought bail from September 3 to 19 following the death of his sister-in-law Kavita Narendra Gadling on September 1. His counsel argued that his presence was necessary as the family shared close ties, adding that he had earlier honoured all interim bail conditions without misuse
A special NIA court in Mumbai on Wednesday granted temporary bail to Nagpur-based lawyer and activist Surendra Pundlik Gadling, an accused in the Elgar Parishad–Koregaon Bhima case, to attend post-death rituals of his sister-in-law. Read more
Supreme Court defers Surendra Gadling’s bail once again; 17 adjournments in two years
04/09/2025
Bar & Bench / by Ritwik Choudhury
The human rights lawyer has been in custody for over six years without charges being framed in connection with the 2016 Surajgarh arson case.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned the bail plea of human rights lawyer and Surajgarh arson accused Surendra Gadling for the 17th time since it was first filed in August 2023 [Surendra Pundalik Gadling vs State of Maharashtra]. Read more
SC to hear bail plea of Bhima Koregaon accused Surendra Gadling on Sep 17
03/09/2025
Hindustan Times / by Abraham Thomas
The decision comes a week after another bench of the top court recused from hearing the matter amid concerns raised by Gadling’s lawyers over the long pendency of the matter since August 2023
The Supreme Court on Wednesday fixed September 17 as the date for hearing the bail plea of Bhima Koregaon violence accused and lawyer Surendra Gadling, a week after another bench of the top court recused from hearing the matter amid concerns raised by his lawyers over the long pendency of the matter since August 2023. Read more
Supreme Court to hear next week Surendra Gadling’s bail plea
29/08/2025
Law Beat / by Aishwarya Iyer
Gadling had reportedly asked Maoists to oppose the operation of Surjagarh mines and instigated several locals to join the movement.
The Supreme Court today has agreed to list next week the bail plea filed by Surendra Gadling, accused in the Bhima Koregoan Elghar Parishad Violence case of 2018. Read more
Supreme Court to hear Surendra Galding’s bail plea on September 3
29/08/2025
The New Indian Express / by pti
On August 8, senior advocate Anand Grover mentioned the matter before CJI Gavai for an early hearing, citing his client Gadling’s over six-year-long incarceration.
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to list on September 3 the hearing on the bail plea of advocate Surendra Gadling, accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. Read more
Scholar activist Anand Teltumbde offers an insider’s account of life behind bars in his book – The Cell and the Soul
What unfolded inside prisons while the nation battled the Covid-19 pandemic? How does corruption between jailers and prisoners thrive behind bars? And how are rules quietly bent for high-profile prisoners held in Maharashtra’s infamous Anda cells — the high-security egg-shaped units? Read more
Noted social activist Anand Teltumbde entered the Taloja Central Prison as accused number 10 in the Bhima Koregaon case and spent 31 months as an undertrial until he was released on bail. As an intellectual who was stripped of his freedom, he lays bares the chilling realities of India’s prisons in his gut-wrenching prison memoir. Part memoir, part diary, Cell and the Soul is a descent into the heart of India’s carceral state, ripping open the belly of the beast-the prison industrial complex-and exposing the brutal, pulsating injustice within.
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Credits: Drawing by Arun Ferreira / The Polis Project
Frontline / by Majid Maqbool
From his early days with EPW to years in prison, the journalist shows how books sustain dissent, nourish freedom, and open a world beyond captivity.
Writer, journalist, and human rights activist Gautam Navlakha has had a decades-long career spanning journalism to activism. All along, through his writings and rights activism, he has always been committed to democratic rights and social justice for all. He has always stood by, spoken out and written in defence of the marginalised communities whose voices he has sought to amplify throughout his career. Read more
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