All posts tagged: Life convicts

Journalist Soumya Vishwanathan’s Mother Moves SC Against Bail Granted To Four Life Convicts

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Last Updated: April 20, 2024, 17:04 IST A SC bench of justices Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal is likely to hear the plea filed by Soumya’s mother. (File photo) Vishwanathan, who worked with a leading English news channel, was shot dead in the early hours of September 30, 2008, on Nelson Mandela Marg in south Delhi The mother of TV journalist Soumya Viswanathan has moved the Supreme Court against the bail granted to four convicts who were serving life imprisonment in the 2008 case of her daughter’s murder. The Delhi High Court on February 12 suspended the sentence of Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, Baljeet Singh Malik and Ajay Kumar and granted them bail till the pendency of their appeals challenging their conviction and sentence. Kapoor, Shukla and Malik were also convicted in the 2009 Jigisha Ghosh murder case and are still in jail. Vishwanathan, who worked with a leading English news channel, was shot dead in the early hours of September 30, 2008, on Nelson Mandela Marg in south Delhi while she was returning …

231 prisoners in Telangana to be released under special remission

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Cherlapally jail | Photo Credit: File | RAMAKRISHNA G Telangana government has, through a media statement, informed that guidelines have been issued for premature release of life and non-life prisoners who have displayed good conduct. A total 231 prisoners with good conduct in prisons have been selected for amnesty. Of them, 212 are life time convicts and 19 non-life convicts. The note said that Governor has the powers to grant remission under the Article 161 of the Constitution of India. This is the third time premature release of prisoners is granted after formation of the Telangana State. Earlier, the amnesty was granted in 2016 and 2020. Last year, though a list was sent, it was not ratified by the governor. An article titled ‘Hopes dashed for life convicts in Telangana prisons awaiting amnesty on Republic Day’ appeared in The Hindu on January 26, which brought to light the fact that a total 276 prisoners have completed at least 10 years of prison term, of whom 62 have completed 20 years and 19 prisoners have been …