The Bombay High Court on Monday, 9 November confirmed the life imprisonment awarded to mafia don-turned-politician Arun G Gawli under the stringent MCOCA by a Special Court in 2012, for the murder of a Shiv Sena municipal corporator.
A division bench comprising Justice BP Dharmadhikari and Justice Swapna Joshi confirmed the sentence on Gawli - a former MLA, and some other associates involved in the crime.
Gawli's lawyer, S Patil later said that he would appeal against the high court verdict.
In a sensational operation, some assailants sent by Gawli had barged into the Ghatkopar home of the Sena corporator, Kamlakar Jamsandekar in March 2008 and shot him dead.