Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to Ramesh Gaichor, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case, for three days. The court noted that he had not been able to meet his ailing father in the last five years since his arrest.
A bench of Justices A.S. Gaichor and Rajesh Patil ordered Gaichor's release from jail from September 9 to 11 after he submitted a cash security of Rs 25,000. The court noted that Gaichor has not met his 76-year-old father since his arrest in September 2020.
Gaichor had earlier this month moved the high court challenging the dismissal of his application for two weeks' interim bail by a special court to look after his father.
The special court had noted that Gaichor was suffering from age-related ailments common among senior citizens. The prosecution had claimed that Ramesh Gaichor was a member of the banned CPI (Maoist) group. He and others were arrested on December 31, 2017, after allegedly delivering a provocative speech at the Elgar Parishad convention in Pune.
Following which, the police claimed that violence broke out the next day near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial on the outskirts of the city. Gaichor is currently lodged in the Taloja Central Jail in Navi Mumbai.