New Delhi, Apr 29 (PTI) The wife of late IAS officer G Krishnaiah, who was lynched by a mob led by former Bihar MP Anand Mohan in 1994, has challenged his premature release from jail in the Supreme Court. Is. Mohan was released from Saharsa Jail on Thursday morning following an amendment in Bihar’s jail rules. Uma Krishnaiah, wife of G Krishnaiah, has argued that the life sentence awarded to the gangster-turned-politician meant imprisonment for his entire natural life and cannot be mechanically interpreted as merely 14 years.
In her plea before the Supreme Court, she said, “Imprisonment for life, when given as an alternative to the death penalty, should be strictly enforced as directed by the court and would be beyond application of remission.”
Mohan’s name was among the list of over 20 prisoners who were ordered to be set free by a notification issued by the state law department earlier this week after they had spent more than 14 years behind bars.
His sentence was commuted after the Nitish Kumar government amended the Bihar Jail Manual on April 10, lifting the ban on early release for those involved in the killing of a public servant on duty.
This, critics of the state government claim, was done to facilitate the release of Mohan, a Rajput stalwart who could add weight to the Nitish Kumar-led Mahagathbandhan in its fight against the BJP. Many others, including politicians, benefited from the amendment to the state’s prison rules.
Krishnaiah, who hails from Telangana, was lynched by a mob in 1994 when his vehicle tried to overtake the funeral procession of gangster Chhotan Shukla in Muzaffarpur district.