Today, On 3rd June, The Supreme Court of India issued a stay on the premature release of notorious gangster Arun Gawli, who is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar in 2008. This legal development mandates Gawli’s surrender, effectively postponing any early exit from incarceration.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court, On Monday, stayed an order by the Bombay High Court that granted remission to gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli. This means that Gawli now expected to surrender before the authorities in the near future.
According to sources close to Gawli, he will indeed be surrendering as required. Gawli currently serving a life sentence for his involvement in the 2007 murder of Shiv Sena corporator Kamalakar Jamsandekar.
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The Bombay High Court ordered that Arun Gawli, who convicted under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), entitled to the benefits of the 2006 remission policy implemented by the Maharashtra government. The court directed the authorities to pass the necessary consequential order in this regard.
Earlier, a vacation bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and Sandeep Mehta heard the plea by the state government challenging Gawli’s premature release.
However, on April 5, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court allowed Gawli’s application for premature release based on the remission policy dated January 10, 2006, which in effect at the time of his conviction on August 31, 2012. Gawli argued that he met all the conditions set forth in the 2006 policy, and the rejection of his application by the state authorities was unjust and arbitrary.
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Gawli, a convicted criminal, claimed to have been certified as physically weak by the Medical Board, which would have made him eligible for the benefits of a 2006 policy regarding premature release. However, the state government opposed his plea, citing revised guidelines from March 18, 2010.
According to these updated guidelines, convicts of organized crime should not be granted premature release unless they served at least 40 years of actual imprisonment.
The state government used these revised guidelines as the basis to reject Gawli’s request for early release.
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