Elgar accused gets temp bail to meet ailing, aged father
MUMBAI, 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 Elgar Parishad case, to visit his aged father. Noting that Gaichor has not been able to visit his father in four years, the court ordered his release on a surety of Rs.25,000 from September 9 to 11.
A division bench of justices Ajay Gadkari and Rajesh Patil noted that Gaichor's father was 76 years old and was admitted to a Pune hospital on June 26 and discharged on June 27. Gaichor was arrested on September 7, 2020. Earlier in 2025 he applied for bail at a trial court, but his plea was rejected. On July 28, he filed a petition challenging the rejection of his bail. Gaichor told the bench that the trial court had failed to consider the humanitarian grounds of his plea. He highlighted that the co-accused Surendra Gadling and Rona Wilson have also been granted temporary bail by the court on humanitarian grounds.
Gaichor is one of the many anti-caste activists and scholars who were arrested in connection with violence that broke out at a Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune's Shaniwarwada to mark the 200th anniversary of the Bhima Koregaon battle. One person died in the violence and several were injured. The NIA has accused Gaichor of "propagating Naxal activities and Maoist ideology"....
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