On Monday, the Apex Court agreed to hear on May 8 a plea filed by the widow of murdered Gopalganj District Magistrate & IAS officer G. Krishnaiah challenging a tweak in the Bihar prison law which facilitated the premature release of former Bihar MP & gangster-turned-politician Anand Mohan, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing Krishnaiah in 1994.
A Bench led by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud fixed the date after an urgent mentioning made by Uma Krishnaiah.
Mohan was released from Saharsa prison on April 27.
The Bihar Prison Manual was amended on April 10 to allow convicts serving life imprisonment for heinous offences to apply for remission if they had completed 14 years in prison.
The amendment also removed the bar on life convicts involved in the murder of a public servant on duty from seeking remission of sentence. No reason whatsoever was given for the amendment which was brought into effect through a State Law Department notification.
The amendment served well for Mohan & 26 others, who successfully applied for remission & got it.
The plea contended, “Life imprisonment, when awarded as a substitute for the death penalty, has to be carried out strictly as directed by the Court & would be beyond application of remission".
Critics of the Nitish Kumar Govt claim the amendment was done to deliberately facilitate the release of Mohan, a Rajput strongman, who could add heft to the electoral fight against the BJP.
Krishnaiah, who hailed from Telangana, was beaten to death by a mob in 1994 when his vehicle tried to overtake the funeral procession of gangster Chhotan Shukla in Muzaffarpur district. Mohan, then an MLA, was leading the procession.
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