Overview

• Justice Shivkumar Dige orally allowed the bail applications for Virendrasinh Tawade, Sharad Kalaskar and Amol Kale, with the detailed order awaited.
• Tawade and Kale are expected to be released after complying with conditions, while Kalaskar stays jailed because he was convicted in the 2013 Dabholkar case and his appeal is pending.
• The bench declined a request from the Pansare family's lawyer to stay the ruling, and said the accused must furnish fresh sureties and bonds.
• Pansare and his wife were shot during a morning walk in Kolhapur on February 16, 2015; he died on February 20 and she survived.
• The probe moved from local police to a CID SIT and then to the ATS in 2022, naming 12 accused with 10 arrests and two alleged absconders, Vinay Pawar and Sarang Akolkar.