The Bombay high court on Friday, January 23, granted bail to cultural activists Sagar Gorkhe and Ramesh Gaichor, arrested in connection with the 2018 Elgar Parishad case. Both Gorkhe and Gaichor were arrested on September 2, 2020, and have suffered incarceration ever since. https://thewire.in/law/sagar-gorkhe-ramesh-gaichor-bail-five-years-five-months-elgar-parishad-bombay-
Gorkhe and Gaichor are among the 16 persons who were arrested at different points in the infamous Elgar Parishad case. Of the 16, Jharkhand- based Jesuit priest and activist Father Stan Swamy died in custody in 2021. Swamy was 84 at the time of his death.
by Sukanya Shantha
23/01/2026