Lawstreet Journal

Supreme Court releases murder convict who spent 29 years in jail [READ ORDER]

Lawstreet Journal 8 Sep 2020 12:00am

Image courtesy: Lawstreet Journal Judiciary Supreme Court releases murder convict who spent 29 years in jail [READ ORDER]

The three-judge bench of Justices N.V. Ramana, S. Abdul Nazeer, and Surya Kant passed this order while considering a writ petition filed by Munna, 79, convicted for an incident in 1989 in which he was involved in the murder of 11 persons with deadly weapons and injuring others. The petitioner submitted that he is undergoing the sentence imposed on him of imprisonment for life and has been in jail since the date of his arrest i.e. February 2, 1989. He said that some of the co-convicts, who had sought similar relief, were released by the Supreme Court last month. Earlier, the government had rejected his application for premature release under Section 2 of the Uttar Pradesh Prisoners Release on Probation Act, 1938. 

 

The Court observed: “Even in this matter, it appears that the authority has not taken into consideration the conditions that are required to be looked into for the purpose of releasing a prisoner under Section 2 of the U.P. Act. Rather, there is only a mention that the crime that the petitioner was involved in is heinous, and there is no appreciation of the record to suggest whether he is likely to abstain from crime and lead a peaceable life. In fact, the prison records suggest that his jail conduct is good. Additionally, it appears that the petitioner is currently around 79 years old and has undergone around 29 years 10 months (imprisonment) without remission, and around 36 years imprisonment including remission.

 

The court allowed his writ petition with the… Continue Reading...


Tagged: Supreme Court of India  
Disclaimer: SoOLEGAL in Media collaboration with Lawstreet Journal. SoOLEGAL take no responsbility for the content provided by Lawstreet Journal. For any discrepancies Contact Lawstreet Journal.
Did you find this write up useful? YES 0 NO 0
×

C2RMTo Know More

Something Awesome Is In The Work

0

DAYS

0

HOURS

0

MINUTES

0

SECONDS

Sign-up and we will notify you of our launch.
We’ll also give some discount for your effort :)

* We won’t use your email for spam, just to notify you of our launch.
×

SAARTHTo Know More

Launching Soon : SAARTH, your complete client, case, practise & document management SAAS application with direct client chat feature.

If you want to know more give us a Call at :+91 98109 29455 or Mail info@soolegal.com