India, May 5 -- The Bombay High Court (HC) on Friday granted bail to a 31-year-old murder convict so he can appear for his first-year law exams. A division bench comprising justices G S Kulkarni and Advait Sethna was hearing a plea by Sohail Ansari, who was convicted in 2021 by a sessions court in Dindoshi, amongst other things, for killing his neighbour Ramesh Jadhav in 2014.

The murder took place during Diwali in 2014 when Ansari and his three accomplices - Yusufali Wali Mohammed Sajida, Imran Anwar Kazi, and Gullu Wali Mohammed Sajida - were physically assaulting two brothers, Jayesh and Hitesh, and their mother Dayaben Trivedi, who resided in Baban Jadhav Chawl in Malad. Jadhav, who lived in a nearby residential society, came to the ...