The wife of slain IAS officer and then DM of Gopalganj district G Krishnaiah, has moved the Supreme Court challenging his premature release from prison. G Krishnaiah was lynched by a mob led by former Bihar MP Anand Mohan in 1994. On Thursday morning, Mohan was released from Saharsa jail as a result of a change in the prison regulations in Bihar.
The gangster-turned-politician’s life sentence, according to Uma Krishnaiah, his wife, was intended to imprison him for the entirety of his natural life and could not be mechanically interpreted to last only 14 years. “Life imprisonment, when awarded as a substitute for the death penalty, has to be carried out strictly as directed by the court and would be beyond application of remission,” she argued in her petition to the Supreme Court.
Mohan’s name appeared on a list of more than 20 inmates who were told to leave prison earlier this week after receiving a notification from the state’s law department because they had served more than 14 years in solitary confinement.His sentence was commuted after the Nitish Kumar administration amended the Bihar Prison Manual on April 10 to remove the prohibition on the early release of those convicted of killing a public servant while performing their job duties.
His sentence was commuted after the Nitish Kumar administration amended the Bihar Prison Manual on April 10 to remove the prohibition on the early release of those convicted of killing a public servant while performing their job duties.The state government’s detractors assert that this was done in order to facilitate the release of Mohan, a powerful Rajput who could strengthen the grand coalition led by Nitish Kumar in its conflict with the BJP. The state prison regulations were changed for the benefit of numerous other people, including politicians. In 1994, a Telangana native named Krishnaiah was killed by a mob after trying to swerve past the funeral procession of the gangster Chhotan Shukla in the district of Muzaffarpur.
