Anand Mohan launch: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the plea difficult the untimely launch of Bihar politician Anand Mohan from jail. The hearing on this matter will be heard on May 8. The petition has been filed earlier than the apex court docket by the wife of slain IAS officer G Krishnaiah.
‘Supreme Court agrees to checklist on May 8, IAS officer G Krishnaiah’s wife Uma Krishnaiah’s plea difficult the untimely launch of Bihar politician Anand Mohan from jail,’ reads a tweet from ANI.
Uma Krishnaiah moved to Supreme Court
Uma Krishnaiah, the wife of slain IAS officer G Krishnaiah earlier moved to the Supreme Court difficult the untimely launch of Bihar MP Anand Mohan from Saharsa jail on Thursday morning. Slain IAS officer G Krishnaiah was lynched by a mob led by former Bihar MP Anand Mohan in 1994. Mohan was in Saharsa jail and was launched on Thursday morning following an modification in Bihar’s jail guidelines.
Uma Krishnaiah, the wife of G Krishnaiah, has contended that the sentence of life imprisonment awarded to the gangster-turned-politician meant incarceration for his complete pure course of life and it can not be mechanically interpreted to final simply 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 the application of remission,” she stated in her petition earlier than the Supreme Court.
What was the case?
Krishnaiah, who hailed from Telangana, was overwhelmed to loss of life by a mob in 1994 when his car tried to overtake the funeral procession of gangster Chhotan Shukla in Muzaffarpur district. Mohan, then an MLA, was main the procession.
