Mumbai: Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the bail plea of Arun Gawli, a don turned politician, in connection with a municipal corporator’s murder case. A special trial court convicted Gawli and gave him a life sentence under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). The SC bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and K Vinod Chandran rejected his bail plea and said his appeal against conviction will be heard.
Kamlakar Jamsandekar, a Shiv Sena corporator, was shot dead by two unidentified persons on March 2, 2007, at his residence at Rumani Manzil in Ghatkopar. Additional solicitor general Raja Thakare opposed Gawli’s bail plea argued by senior counsel R Basant. The prosecution case has been that Gawli, as “kingpin”, was rightly convicted for the offence under MCOCA and hence was not entitled to bail. Gawli’s plea was that there was no evidence on record to prove the corporator’s murder was committed by an organised crime syndicate, or that Akhil Bharatiya Sena is an organised crime syndicate and he headed any crime syndicate.
Mumbai: Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the bail plea of Arun Gawli, a don turned politician, in connection with a municipal corporator’s murder case. A special trial court convicted Gawli and gave him a life sentence under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). The SC bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and K Vinod Chandran rejected his bail plea and said his appeal against conviction will be heard.
Kamlakar Jamsandekar, a Shiv Sena corporator, was shot dead by two unidentified persons on March 2, 2007, at his residence at Rumani Manzil in Ghatkopar. Additional solicitor general Raja Thakare opposed Gawli’s bail plea argued by senior counsel R Basant. The prosecution case has been that Gawli, as “kingpin”, was rightly convicted for the offence under MCOCA and hence was not entitled to bail. Gawli’s plea was that there was no evidence on record to prove the corporator’s murder was committed by an organised crime syndicate, or that Akhil Bharatiya Sena is an organised crime syndicate and he headed any crime syndicate. — Swati Deshpande
