"It should normally be a simple matter for (Maoist sympathizer Kobad) Ghandy (pictured) to get bail in the Surat case. He is the only one of the 24 accused not yet out on bail. But nothing unfortunately, has been easy or straightforward about Ghandy’s 
decade-long incarceration,” so wrote The Indian Express columnist Coomi Kapoor in the September 15, 2019 edition of the daily.
"In April, it had seemed as if Ghandy’s ordeal might finally end. He had obtained bail or been acquitted in the numerous cases against him. But matters can get complicated in our criminal justice system. The Jharkhand authorities refused to free Ghandy even after his release order because the Surat police suddenly sent word that there was a production warrant for a case pending against him since February 2010. Though Ghandy wrote repeatedly starting November 2016 to the Surat court asking that the production warrant in the Gujarat matter be forwarded to expedite the case, he received no response. The Hazaribagh police, meanwhile, kept Ghandy in prison for several months claiming there was no escort available to take him to Surat.”
Seventy-two-year-old Ghandy "has been in jail for 10 years with nearly two dozen criminal cases filed against him all over the country, mostly under the vague Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. He has been shuttled around as a non-political prisoner to various jails, despite his serious medical condition which requires hospitalization,” wrote Kapoor.
Ghandy’s occasional letters and articles have appeared in Parsiana over the past several years but no correspondence has been received from him over the past year.