The Supreme Court is set to hear the plea of the Maharashtra government on June 3 regarding the premature release of gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli, who is serving life imprisonment for the murder of Mumbai Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar in 2007. The Bombay High Court had earlier allowed Gawli’s plea for premature release based on a remission policy from 2006.
However, the State government has opposed this, citing revised guidelines from 2010. Despite the rejection of the State’s submission by the High Court, the government moved to seek four months’ time for implementation of the order, which was ultimately denied. Gawli’s release remains pending pending the Supreme Court’s decision on the matter.