India, Sept. 4 -- Six days after the Supreme Court granted him bail in a murder case, former gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli walked out of Nagpur Central Jail on Wednesday, after nearly 18 years of incarceration. The 76-year-old, also known as Daddy, was serving life imprisonment for his involvement in the 2007 murder of Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar.

In its bail order passed on August 28, a Supreme Court bench of justices MM Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh noted that Gawli had been in jail for over 17 years and his appeal was still pending. The bail would be subject to conditions imposed by the trial court, it said. "Accordingly, the trial court set the conditions and issued a release order on Tuesday," said advocate Mir...