India, Aug. 27 -- The Bombay high court on Tuesday granted a three-day temporary bail to activist Ramesh Muralidhar Gaichor, arrested in connection with the 2018 Bhima Koregaon or Elgar Parishad case, to visit his aged father. Noting that Gaichor has not been able to visit his father in the past four years, the court ordered his release on a surety of Rs.25,000 from September 9 to September 11.

A division bench of justices Ajay Gadkari and Rajesh Patil noted that Gaichor's father was 76 years old and had been admitted to a Pune hospital on June 26 and discharged on June 27. The court said, "The appellant, since the date of arrest, was not allowed to meet his father for more than 4 years. Therefore, we are permitting the appellant to be r...