Supreme Court grants bail to Arun Gawli after 17 years

After spending more than 17 years behind bars, gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli on Wednesday walked out of the Nagpur Central Jail with the Supreme Court granting him bail in a 2007 murder case, officials said.

The apex court granted bail to 76-year-old Gawli, who was serving life imprisonment for the murder of Mumbai



Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar. 

A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh noted that Gawli was in jail for over 17 years and his appeal was pending before it. “After the completion of all legal formalities of the prisons department, Gawli came out of the jail around 12.30 pm,” an official said.