Editor Mr.Mayank Rawat ( Chief Editor Mr. Rohit Mishra )
New Delhi: Pulling up Delhi govt for not properly handling remission pleas filed by convicts, Supreme Court on Monday said the manner in which the govt was dealing with the issue showed a “very sorry state of affairs”.
“All we can say is that it is a very sorry state of affairs in the manner in which the govt is dealing with the plea for premature release,” a bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan said after govt officials failed to give satisfactory replies to queries put by the bench over the flip-flop in deciding the remission plea of a convict.
Though the court initially said it was in favour of a thorough probe into the process adopted by the govt and the Sentence Review Board while deciding the remission plea of the convict, it, however, refrained from doing so. As Delhi govt sought one last opportunity to rectify the mistake, the court granted it time till May to take a decision.
The court had previously slammed the Delhi govt over delay in deciding remission pleas filed by 114 convicts. It had castigated states for mechanically rejecting remission pleas of life convicts who have served more than 14 years in jail.
Mayank Rawat
