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  • Supreme Court asks Bihar government to produce records related to exemption of Anand Mohan

    Supreme Court asks Bihar government to produce records related to exemption of Anand Mohan

    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

  • The family of the victim said this on the release of Anand Mohan

    The family of the victim said this on the release of Anand Mohan

    Reacting to the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government releasing 27 prisoners, including gangster-turned-politician Anand Mohan Singh who was serving life sentence in the 1994 murder of Gopalganj district magistrate G Krishnaiah, by amending the state’s prison manual on Thursday, the daughter of the IAS officer said it was “disheartening” to see him being released from jail.

    Anand Mohan Singh was released from Bihar’s Saharsa Jail on Thursday at 4 am. (HT)
    Anand Mohan Singh was released from Bihar’s Saharsa Jail on Thursday at 4 am. (HT)
    Speaking to news agency ANI, Padma said, “It’s disheartening for us that Anand Mohan Singh has been released from jail today. The government should reconsider this decision. I request Nitish Kumar ji to give a second thought to this decision. With this decision, his govt has set a wrong example. It is unfair not just to a family but to the whole nation. We will appeal against this decision.”

    Singh was pronounced a death sentence in 2007 for the murder of G Krishnaiah – a 1985-batch IAS officer. But a year later, the sentence was changed to life imprisonment by Patna high court.

    Singh was released from Bihar’s Saharsa Jail on Thursday at 4 am.

    On Monday evening, the Bihar law department issued a notification, stating that on the recommendation of the Bihar state sentence remission council, the “decision was taken for the release of prisoners having served actual sentence of 14 years or sentence of 20 years with remission.”

    The Indian Civil and Administrative Service (Central) Association on Tuesday expressed dismay at the Bihar government for its decision to release Singh and other convicts- who were serving a life sentence for the murder of the IAS Officer G Krishnaiah. Urging the government to “reconsider” the decision, the top IAS body said that the release of a convicted killer is “tantamount to the denial of justice”.

    “A convict of a charge of murder of a public servant on duty, cannot be re-classified to a less heinous category. Amendment of an existing classification that leads to the release of the convicted killer of a public servant on duty is tantamount to the denial of justice. Such dilution leads to impunity, and erosion in the morale of public servants, undermines public order, and makes a mockery of the administration of justice,” the IAS officers’ body said in the letter.

    According to a clause from the Bihar Prison Manual, anyone who was found guilty of killing a government official would not be given the benefit of remission ever. However, on April 10, the Bihar government had removed this clause.