Arun Gawli, the gangster, is permitted to leave the Nagpur jail for 28 days
The Bombay High Court's Nagpur division on Tuesday granted bandit Arun Gawli, who is serving a life term in the Central jail in Nagpur, a 28-day furlough. A prisoner is permitted to leave a facility for a predetermined amount of time during a furlough.
Gawli was ordered to be released on furlough for 28 days by a division bench of Justice Nitin Sambre and Valmiki Menezes after the gangster sought help from the HC through his attorney Mir Nagman Ali after DIG Prisons (Nagpur) denied his request for relief. Gawli is currently serving a life sentence in this location's major jail for the 2007 slaying of Mumbai Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar.
Ali informed the court that the DIG (Prisons) had denied Gawli's request on the grounds that, given the number of offenses the gangster-turned-politician had been charged with, his release may disrupt peace and order. He claimed that it was documented that his wife had been charged with a crime each time Gawali was released in the past. Another justification offered was that Gawli's release will have an impact on subsequent Mumbai civic body elections.
The division bench of Justice Nitin Sambre and Justice Valmiki Menezes was informed that Gawli had always turned himself in on time and that there had never been a law and order issue when he had previously been released on parole or furlough. Furthermore, it was argued before the division bench that the request for a furlough could not be denied based solely on a negative police report.
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