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Supreme Court to hear next week Surendra Gadling’s bail plea

Supreme Court to hear next week Surendra Gadling’s bail plea

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.
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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.
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Also read:
Supreme Court Judge Justice MM Sundresh Recuses Himself From Hearing Bail Plea Of Advocate Surendra Gadling (Free Press Journal / Aug 2025)
In Surendra Gadling’s case, adjournment becomes the verdict (Frontline / Aug 2025)
Villagers in Gadchiroli campaign to shut down Surjagarh iron ore mine (Land Conflict Watch / Feb 2017)

SC Justice MM Sundresh recuses from Surendra Gadling’s Bail Plea In 2016 Gadchiroli Arson Case

SC Justice MM Sundresh recuses from Surendra Gadling’s Bail Plea In 2016 Gadchiroli Arson Case

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Supreme Court Judge Justice MM Sundresh Recuses Himself From Hearing Bail Plea Of Advocate Surendra Gadling In Elgar Parishad Case

27/08/2025

Free Press Journal / by FPJ News Service

The plea was scheduled to be heard by a bench comprising Justice Sundresh and Justice N Kotiswar Singh. Earlier, on August 8, senior advocate Anand Grover had mentioned the case before Chief Justice BR Gavai, seeking an early hearing on grounds that Gadling has been in jail for over six-and-a-half years.
Supreme Court judge Justice MM Sundresh on Tuesday recused himself from hearing the bail plea of advocate Surendra Gadling, an accused in the Elgar Parishad–Maoist links case.
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Justice MM Sundresh Recuses From Hearing Surendra Gadling’s Bail Plea In 2016 Gadchiroli Arson Case

26/08/2025

Live Law / by Amisha Shrivastava

The matter will be heard by another bench.
Justice MM Sundresh of the Supreme Court recused himself from hearing the bail plea of Dalit rights activist and advocate Surendra Gadling in the 2016 Gadchiroli arson case. The matter was listed today before a bench of Justice Sundresh and Justice N Kotiswar Singh.
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Supreme Court Justice MM Sundresh recuses from Surendra Gadling bail case

26/08/2025

Bar & Bench / by Ummar Jamal

According to the details available on the Supreme Court website, the matter is not to be listed before Justice Sundresh.
Supreme Court Justice MM Sundresh on Tuesday recused from hearing the bail plea filed by lawyer and activist Surendra Gadling in connection with the 2016 Surajgarh arson case [Surendra Pundalik Gadling vs State of Maharashtra].
According to the details available on the Supreme Court website, the matter is not to be listed before Justice Sundresh.
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Justice M.M. Sundresh recuses from hearing activist Surendra Gadling’s bail plea after repeated adjournments

26/08/2025

The Hindu / by Aaratrika Bhaumik

Activist Surendra Gadling’s counsel had earlier apprised Chief Justice B.R. Gavai that his bail plea had been adjourned 11 times in the Supreme Court
Supreme Court judge Justice M.M. Sundresh on Tuesday (August 26, 2025) recused himself from hearing a bail petition filed by advocate and activist Surendra Gadling in connection with the 2016 Surjagarh iron ore mine arson case.
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Also read:
In Surendra Gadling’s case, adjournment becomes the verdict (Frontline / Aug 2025)
SC to consider listing bail plea of Surendra Gadling (Hindustan Times / Aug 2025)
Will anti-Naxal drive pave way for mining giants? (New Indian Express / May 2025)
How Long is Too Long? – On the Maximum Period that an Undertrial Prisoner can be Detained (Constitutional Law and Philosophy | by Hany Babu and Surendra Gadling | Oct 2024)
When Push Comes to Shove: Tracking Judicial Recusals and Transfers (The Wire / Apr 2023)
DISINHERITING ADIVASIS – THE GADCHIROLI GAME PLAN (KAFILA / June 2018)

Bombay High Court grants three-day bail to Ramesh Gaichor to visit ailing father

Bombay High Court grants three-day bail to Ramesh Gaichor to visit ailing father

Credits: Drawing by Arun Ferreira / The Polis Project

High Court grants temporary bail to Elgar Parishad accused to meet ailing father

26/08/2025

India Today / by Vidya

The Bombay High Court granted Ramesh Gaichor, arrested in the Elgar Parishad case, three-day temporary bail to visit his ailing 75-year-old father, waiving escort charges citing his modest family background.
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday allowed Elgar Parishad accused Ramesh Gaichor temporary bail for three days to meet his ailing father, whom he has not seen in over four years of incarceration.
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Bombay High Court Grants 3 Days Interim Bail To Accused Ramesh Gaichor To Visit Ailing Father In Pune

26/08/2025

Live Law / by Barsi Benwal

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday (August 26) granted interim bail for 3 days to Ramesh Gaichor, one of the accused in the Bhima Koregaon – Elgar Parishad case, enabling him to visit his ailing father in Pune.
A division bench of Justices Ajay Gadkari and Rajesh Patil ordered Gaichor’s release on a surety of Rs. 25,000. He would be escorted by a police team, to be arranged by the Commissioner of Police, Navi Mumbai as he is presently lodged in Taloja jail.
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Bombay High Court grants three-day bail to Bhima Koregaon accused Ramesh Gaichor to visit father

26/08/2025

Bar & Bench / by Sahyaja MS

A special NIA court had earlier rejected Gaichor’s bail application to meet his ailing father.
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted three-day temporary bail to Ramesh Murlidhar Gaichor, one of the accused in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case of 2018 [Ramesh Murlidhar Gaichor v National Investigation Agency].
A Bench of Justice AS Gadkari and Justice Rajesh Patil granted temporary relief to Gaichor to enable him to visit his ailing 76-year-old father.
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Also read:
Bail plea of Elgar Parishad case accused to take care of ailing father rejected (India Today / Jul 2025)
Ramesh Gaichor on the Elgar prisoners’ defiance of the neo-Peshwai prison system (The Polis Project | by Ramesh Gaichor | Sep 2024)
Ramesh Gaichor’s parents just want to meet him again before they die (The Polis Project / Jul 2024)

In Surendra Gadling’s case, adjournment becomes the verdict

In Surendra Gadling’s case, adjournment becomes the verdict

Frontline / by Saurav Das

In the shadow of Bhima Koregaon, the Supreme Court lets delay speak louder than justice.
Surendra Gadling’s bail application has become a Kafkaesque file in the Supreme Court. It appears on the cause list, only to vanish. It is mentioned, only to be deferred. It is scheduled, only to be adjourned. The judge presiding over it, Justice M.M. Sundresh, has turned the very act of not hearing into a form of adjudication.
The bail plea has been listed 17 times since it was first filed in August 2023.
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Also read:
SC to consider listing bail plea of Surendra Gadling (Hindustan Times / Aug 2025)
How Long is Too Long? – On the Maximum Period that an Undertrial Prisoner can be Detained (Constitutional Law and Philosophy | by Hany Babu and Surendra Gadling | Oct 2024)
Surendra Gadling’s Computer Was Attacked, Incriminating Documents Planted: Arsenal Consulting (The Wire / July 2021)
Gadling in jail. Reason? As lawyer-activist he has been ‘unpleasant’ to India’s topcops (Counterview / Dec 2020)

Supreme Court Agrees For Early Listing Of Surendra Gadling’s Bail Plea

Supreme Court Agrees For Early Listing Of Surendra Gadling’s Bail Plea

Surendra Gadling

Supreme Court Agrees For Early Listing Of Surendra Gadling’s Bail Plea

08/08/2025

Live Law / by Anmol Kaur Bawa

The Supreme Court today (August 8) accepted a request for early hearing of the bail plea by Dalit rights activist and advocate Surendra Gadling in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon case under the UAPA over alleged Maoist links.
Sr Advocate Anand Grover, appearing for Gadling, mentioned the matter before the bench of CJI BR Gavai and Justices K Vinod Chandran and NV Anjaria.
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SC to consider listing bail plea of Surendra Gadling

08/08/2025

Hindustan Times / by PTI

The Supreme Court on Friday took note of repeated adjournments and assured early listing of the bail plea of advocate Surendra Gadling accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
A bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justices K Vinod Chandran and N V Anjaria was urged by his counsel and senior advocate Anand Grover, who said his client had been in jail for “6.5 years”.
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Also read:
How Long is Too Long? – On the Maximum Period that an Undertrial Prisoner can be Detained (Constitutional Law and Philosophy | by Hany Babu and Surendra Gadling | Oct 2024)
Surendra Gadling’s Computer Was Attacked, Incriminating Documents Planted: Arsenal Consulting (The Wire / July 2021)
Gadling in jail. Reason? As lawyer-activist he has been ‘unpleasant’ to India’s topcops (Counterview / Dec 2020)

Ramesh Gaichor Moves Bombay High Court, Seeks Interim Bail To Visit Ailing Father

Ramesh Gaichor Moves Bombay High Court, Seeks Interim Bail To Visit Ailing Father

Credits: Drawing by Arun Ferreira / The Polis Project

Live Law / by Narsi Benwal

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday (August 6) ordered the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take instructions and file a reply in response to the petition filed by Ramesh Gaichor, one of the accused in the Bhima Koregaon – Elgar Parishad case, who has sought temporary bail to visit his ailing father.
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Also read:
Bail plea of Elgar Parishad case accused to take care of ailing father rejected (India Today / Jul 2025)
Ramesh Gaichor on the Elgar prisoners’ defiance of the neo-Peshwai prison system (The Polis Project | by Ramesh Gaichor | Sep 2024)
Ramesh Gaichor’s parents just want to meet him again before they die (The Polis Project / Jul 2024)

NIA court rejects Gautam Navlakha’s plea to stay in Delhi, slams repeated applications

NIA court rejects Gautam Navlakha’s plea to stay in Delhi, slams repeated applications

Bail ! Gautam with his partner Sabha Husain. May 2024.

Mumbai court denies Elgar Parishad case accused’s plea to visit Delhi

07/08/2025

India Today / by Vidya

Advocate Wahab Khan, argued that Gautam Navlakha had complied with all previous court conditions when earlier permitted to travel and that his request was genuine, time-bound.
A Special NIA Court in Mumbai has dismissed activist Gautam Navlakha’s application seeking permission to travel to Delhi for 45 days, sharply criticising the repeated nature of such requests and calling it a “deliberate attempt to circumvent judicial restrictions”.
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NIA court rejects Gautam Navlakha’s plea to stay in Delhi, slams repeated applications

06/08/2025

Times of India / by Rebecca Samervel

In a scathing order rejecting the plea of 73-year-old activist, lawyer and 2018 Elgar Parishad accused Gautam Navlakha to travel and stay in Delhi for 45 days for personal and professional reasons, a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) judge criticised him for what it termed as “ingeniously” moving “application after application” to reside in the national capital, despite a previous plea for permanent residency being denied.
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Can’t give nod ‘every now and then’: Court rejects Navlakha’s plea to travel to Delhi

05/08/2025

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

In the latest plea, he submitted that he wants to travel as his sister cannot come to Mumbai due to her health condition.
A special court rejected a plea filed by activist Gautam Navlakha, arrested in the Elgaar Parishad case, to stay in Delhi for 45 days to visit his 86-year-old sister and for other purposes.
In his plea, Navlakha sought permission to stay in Delhi from July 15 to August 30, citing that he had been similarly permitted in November 2024 and had abided with all conditions.
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Also read:
Bhima Koregaon case: Court rejects activist Gautam Navlakha’s plea to live in Delhi (Scroll.in / Jun 2025)
BK-16 Prison Diaries: The ‘ordinary’ in extraordinary times: A captive’s life in Covid-19 (The Polis Project | by Gautam Navlakha | May 2025)
Navlakha files application in court seeking permission to stay in Delhi (The Indian Express / Apr 2025)
Gautam Navlakha granted bail by Supreme Court; orders him to pay 20 lakhs for the expenses incurred during his house arrest (cjp / May 2024)
Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon accused struggle to find house in city (Hindustan Times / Nov 2022)

SC Allows Hany Babu to Approach Trial or High Court For Bail

SC Allows Hany Babu to Approach Trial or High Court For Bail

SC Allows Hany Babu to Approach Trial or High Court For Bail

16/07/2025

The Wire / by The Wire Staff

On Wednesday, Babu’s counsel submitted to the top court that he had undergone five years as an undertrial and withdrawn the special leave petition to move the high court.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (July 16) granted liberty to former Delhi University Professor Hany Babu to approach either the trial court or the high court to seek bail in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad conspiracy case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act over alleged Maoist links, LiveLaw reported.
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Hany Babu To Approach Trial Court Or HC, Or Revive Withdrawn SLP For Bail

16/07/2025

Live Law / by Gursimran Kaur Bakshi

The Supreme Court today (July 16) granted liberty to former Delhi University Professor Hany Babu to approach either the trial court or the High Court seeking bail in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad conspiracy case under the UAPA over alleged Maoist links.
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Also read:
‘Tell the judge he has done no crime’: The struggles of Hany Babu’s family (Scroll.in / Jul 2025)
Supreme Court Refuses Urgent Listing For Hany Babu’s Application In Bhima Koregaon Case (Live Law / June 2025)

Symptoms cited to meet ailing father ‘common for almost every senior citizen’: NIA court denies Ramesh Gaichor interim bail

Symptoms cited to meet ailing father ‘common for almost every senior citizen’: NIA court denies Ramesh Gaichor interim bail

Symptoms cited to meet ailing father ‘common for almost every senior citizen’: Mumbai court denies interim bail for Ramesh Gaichor

03/07/2025

The India Express / by Sadaf Modak

Ramesh Gaichor has been in jail since 2020 over alleged Maoist affiliation in the Elgaar Parishad case and sought interim bail for two weeks to meets his father.
A special court in Mumbai Tueday denied interim bail for two weeks sought by an accused in the Elgaar Parishad case, citing that symptoms suffered by his father are “quite common for almost every senior citizen”.
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NIA Court rejects interim bail plea by Bhima Koregaon violence accused Ramesh Gaichor
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03/07/2025

Bar & Bench / by Sahyaja MS

A special NIA court in Mumbai on Tuesday denied interim bail to Ramesh Murlidhar Gaichor, one of the accused in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case [Ramesh Murlidhar Gaichor v National Investigation Agency]
Gaichor had sought a two-week temporary release to visit his ailing father.
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Also read/watch:
BK-16 Prison Diaries: Ramesh Gaichor on the Elgar prisoners’ defiance of the neo-Peshwai prison system (The Polis Project / Sep 2024)

▪ WE ARE CHILDREN OF AMBEDKAR: Shahir Ramesh and Sagar

hindi/english subtitles | 07:26min | 2020

Shahir Sagar Gorkhe and Shahir Ramesh Gaichor, prominent members of Bhima Koregaon Shauryadin Prerna Abhiyan and Kabir Kala Manch, found themselves at the receiving end of the BJP government’s actions when they were arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on 7th September 2020.
Both Shahir Sagar Gorkhe and Shahir Ramesh Gaichor have asserted that the NIA forced them to provide false testimony against those already arrested. They were coerced into writing confessional statements seeking forgiveness and implicating other individuals in the case. However, their steadfast refusal to comply with these unjust demands has put them at risk of being arrested by the NIA.
In a recorded video statement, Sagar emphasized their commitment to following the constitution and their allegiance to Dr. Ambedkar, stating, “We aren’t progenies of Savarkar but are children of Dr. Ambedkar. Confessing to things we have never done is out of the question.”

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Supreme Court Refuses Urgent Listing For Hany Babu’s Application In Bhima Koregaon Case

Supreme Court Refuses Urgent Listing For Hany Babu’s Application In Bhima Koregaon Case

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Live Law / by Live Law News Network

The bench said that the applicant cannot seek urgent listing during the vacations when he could have approached the Court during the regular working days.
… Last month, the High Court observed that the Supreme Court’s order allowing the withdrawal did not reserve his liberty to approach the High Court. Hence, the High Court said that Babu was required to seek clarification from the Supreme Court.
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Also read:
Why Bela Trivedi retired from Supreme Court as a deeply unpopular judge (Scroll.in / May 2025)
HC questions maintainability of Hany Babu’s fresh bail plea (Hindustan Times / May 2025)
How Long Is Too Long for an Undertrial Prisoner To Be Detained? (The Wire | by Hany Babu and Surendra Gadling | Oct 2024)