New Delhi (IANS) | The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Bihar government to produce the original records with regard to the immunity granted to former MP Anand Mohan, who was arrested in 1994 by Golapganj District Magistrate G. In the case of Krishnaya’s murder, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Justices Suryakant and J.B. Pardiwala’s bench directed the counsel for the Bihar government to produce for perusal of the court the original records relating to the exemption granted to Mohan. The top court has fixed the matter for next hearing in August.
On 8 May, the Supreme Court ordered IAS officer G. The notice was issued on a petition by the widow of Krishnaiah, who was lynched by a mob led by Singh in 1994, against the premature release of Anand Mohan from jail.
The sentence of life imprisonment awarded to a convict as an alternative to death sentence has to be looked at differently and distinguishable from simple life imprisonment awarded as first choice punishment, states the petition filed by Umadevi Krishnaya. should go. An alternative to the death penalty, to be carried out strictly as directed by the court and would be beyond application of remission.
Said, life imprisonment means whole life. Its 14 years cannot be explained. It means imprisonment till the last breath.
Anand Mohan was released from Saharsa Jail after the amendment in Bihar’s jail rules.
The petition states that Mohan is a politically influential person and he himself killed serving IAS officer G Krishnaiah when he was a Member of Parliament. He enjoys political support and has several criminal cases pending against him.
The plea argued that the Bihar Prison Manual, provides that convicts whose death sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment would be eligible for remission only after completion of 20 years of their sentence.
In 1994 Krishnaiah, the then District Magistrate of Gopalganj, who hailed from Telangana, was lynched by a mob when his vehicle tried to overtake the funeral procession of gangster Chhotan Shukla. The mob was instigated by Anand Mohan.
–IANS
