Advocate Surendra Gadling, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, on Tuesday urged the Bombay High Court to grant him temporary bail to take part in certain rituals on the first death anniversary of his mother next month. Gadling had moved the high court last year seeking bail.

In his plea, filed through senior lawyer Indira Jaising and advocate R Sathyanarayan, Gadling had challenged a special court's order from 2020 that rejected his plea for temporary bail to attend the last rites of his mother.