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
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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”. Read more
Constitutional Law and Philosophy / by Hany Babu and Surendra Gadling
This is a guest post by Hany Babu and Surendra Gadling, who have been detained in prison as “undertrials” since 2020 and 2018, respectively. This piece is being published here simultaneously with The Proof of Guilt blog.
The judgement in the case of (2019) 5 SCC 1 [“Watali] was delivered by the Supreme Court on 02.04.2019. Ever since then, procuring bail for a person accused of an offence under Chapters IV or VI of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA) has been, to borrow an illustrative simile used by Abhinav Sekhri, like asking a person to swim after throwing him in deep water with both his hands tied behind him. Read more
The Wire / by Hany Babu, Jyoti Jagtap, Mahesh Raut, Ramesh Murlidhar Gaichor, Sagar Gorkhe, Surendra Gadling
On the fourth anniversary of Father Stan’s death due to alleged medical negligence in prison, his co-defendants in jail have vowed to lead a hunger strike.
On July 5, 2021, Father Stan Swamy left us, succumbing to failing health aggravated by the deliberate denial of medical care by a repressive state as part of its devious strategy in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case. Four years have passed since this institutional murder of Father Stan. We seethe in indignation on the very memory of this day, when the real, violent, blood-thirsty face of the state unravelled to one and all. Read more
Protecting the Protectors: AILAJ Demands Advocates Protection Act
Lawyers demand protection from harassment, sexism, and state repression as AILAJ finalizes draft Advocates’ Protection Bill after month-long campaign.
All India Lawyers Association of Justice (AILAJ) Delhi culminated its month-long campaign for the enactment of an Advocates’ Protection Act in a state-level consultation held on 12 April at the Press Club of India. …
Advocate Rohin Bhatt … urged that the Bill must have provisions that discourage the state from maliciously prosecuting lawyers, as it has done to lawyers like Sudha Bhardwaj and Surendra Gadling in the Bhima Koregaon case. Read more
▪ Video: The Conditions of Prisoners in Indian Jails
By All India Lawyers’ Association for Justice – AILAJ / March 2022
en | 1:21:23 | 2022
The huge number of undertrials, the overcrowding, and the disproportional numbers of Dalit, Muslim and Adivasi prisoners are part of the prison problem in India.
We are joined by Adv. Sudha Bharadwaj for a discussion on the Conditions of Prisoners in Indian Jails. Watch video
SC adjourns bail pleas of Jyoti Jagtap, Mahesh Raut and Surendra Gadling
Supreme Court adjourns bail pleas of Surendra Gadling and Jyoti Jagtap
27/03/2025
The Hindu / by pti
The Supreme Court also deferred hearing on the petition filed by the NIA challenging the bail granted to activist Mahesh Raut
The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned by two weeks hearing on the bail plea of advocate Surendra Gadling and activist Jyoti Jagtap arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Rajesh Bindal also deferred hearing on the petition filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) challenging the bail granted to activist Mahesh Raut. Read more
by Bar & Bench (March 27):
The Supreme Court adjourns for two weeks the bail plea of Bhima Koregaon accused Jyoti Jagtap and Mahesh Raut, who are facing allegations of links with banned Maoist groups
The matter was listed today before a bench comprising Justices M.M. Sundresh and Rajesh Bindal.
by Bar & Bench (March 27)
The Supreme Court adjourns for two weeks the bail plea of Dalit rights activist and lawyer Surendra Gadling, who has been in jail since June 2018 under the UAPA for his alleged involvement in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence and his connection to the 2016 Gadchiroli Arson Case.
The matter was listed today before a bench comprising Justices M.M. Sundresh and Rajesh Bindal.
Click to enlarge | Credits: Mouli Sharma / The Polis Project
The Polis Project / by Mouli Sharma and Prashant Rahi
This is the third report in a three-part investigative series on the Elgar Parishad/Bhima Koregaon case. Read part one here and part two here.
In October 2014, five months after the arrest of the professor GN Saibaba, Stan Swamy’s computer was hacked. Unbeknown to the world, the nascent stages of investigation against the prime accused in the Elgar Parishad case, who came to be monikered the BK-16, had already begun in 2014 – four years before any of the arrests even took place.
The unknown attacker used a Remote Access Trojan – or RAT – sent through targeted phishing emails to compromise Swamy’s computer. Read more
Dispatches: A Conversation on unravelling the Elgar Parishad / Bhima Koregaon case
Credits: Drawing by Arun Ferreira / The Polis Project
Credits: Drawing by Arun Ferreira / The Polis Project
The Leaflet / by Hany Babu and Surendra Gadling
The Supreme Court’s reassurance that video-conferencing improves access to courtrooms misses a crucial point. Through interviews with over 300 prisoners in the Taloja Central Jail, two of India’s foremost civil rights activists reveal how the producing of accused through video-conferencing, and the State’s continual excuse of insufficient police personnel, sustains an architecture of injustice, ripping apart the lives of India’s prisoners. Read more
