The Supreme Court on Thursday granted interim relief to Maharashtra BJP MLA Jaykumar Gore in a document forgery case and stayed his arrest till July 1, when the court will take up his anticipatory bail plea.

Gore had challenged the Bombay High Court’s decision to dismiss his anticipatory bail plea in the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court vacation bench of Justices CT Ravikumar and Sudhanshu Dhulia granted the interim protection from arrest till further orders.

A case had been registered against BJP MLA Jaykumar Gore from Satara in Maharashtra and five others by the Dahiwadi Police for allegedly grabbing land by making fake documents in the name of a deceased person.

A man called Mahadev Piraji Bhise had lodged a complaint in this regard.