Wife of slain IAS officer moves Supreme Court against ex-MP Anand Mohan's release
The Hindu
Wife of slain IAS officer G. Krishnaiah, who was lynched by a mob led by former Bihar MP Anand Mohan in 1994, moves Supreme Court challenging his premature release from prison
The wife of slain IAS officer G. Krishnaiah, who was lynched by a mob led by former Bihar MP Anand Mohan in 1994, has moved the Supreme Court challenging his premature release from prison.
Mohan was released from Saharsa jail on April 27 morning following an amendment in Bihar’s prison rules.
Uma Krishnaiah, the wife of G. Krishnaiah, has contended that the sentence of life imprisonment awarded to the gangster-turned-politician meant incarceration for his entire natural course of life and it cannot be mechanically interpreted to last just 14 years.
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“Life imprisonment, when awarded as a substitute for death penalty, has to be carried out strictly as directed by the court and would be beyond application of remission,” she said in her petition before the Supreme Court.
Mohan’s name figured in a list of more than 20 prisoners who were ordered to be set free by a notification issued by the state’s law department earlier this week as they had spent more than 14 years behind bars.
The remission of his sentence followed an April 10 amendment to the Bihar Prison Manual by the Nitish Kumar Government whereby the restriction on early release of those involved in killing of a public servant on duty was done away with.
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