HC upholds Gawli’s life sentence in Sena corporator murder case
The HinduThe Bombay High Court on Monday confirmed gangster Arun Gawli’s conviction and upheld the life sentence awarded to him for murdering a Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar in 2007. Gawli, a contract killer-turned-politician shot Jamsandekar on March 2, 2007, at Ghatkopar, along his gang members — Sunil Ghate, Suresh Patil, Pratap Godse, Sandeep alias Sandy Gangan, Shrikrishna alias Babu Gurav, Vijaykumar and Anilkumar Giri, and Sahebrao Bhintade. It is only then the Mumbai Police were able to establish that two builders — Bhintade and Bala Surve — who were Jamsandekar’s rivals, paid Gawli ₹30 lakh to have the councillor killed in a land dispute. Gawli was first lodged in Arthur Road jail, then shifted to Thane’s Taloja jail in 2010, then Nagpur central jail in 2015, and is now at Yerwada jail in Pune.