Patna:
A petition has been filed in Patna High Court challenging the amendment of Bihar Prison Rules that allowed the release of Anand Mohan, a gangster turned politician, after serving a life sentence for killing an IAS officer three decades ago.
Mr Mohan, who was a Member of Parliament before his conviction in 2007, was released from Saharsa Prison on Thursday morning.
The petitioner, Anupam Kumar Suman, shared the information on his Twitter account on Wednesday along with screenshots of e-filing of the Public Interest Litigation.
“Yesterday I submitted a PIL to the Supreme Court challenging the dangerous (khatarnaak) amendment that allowed for the remission of the sentence awarded to a convict for the murder of a government servant in Bihar,” Suman wrote in Hindi.
Mr Mohan’s name appeared on a list of more than 20 inmates who were ordered to be released earlier this week by a state law notice, having served more than 14 years behind bars.
His remission of sentence followed an April 10 amendment to the Bihar Prison Manual by the government of Nitish Kumar, which lifted the restriction on early release of those involved in the murder of an on-duty official.
Critics claim that this was done to release Mohan.
Incidentally, Mr. Suman himself is a former civil servant who voluntarily retired from the Indian Revenue Service a few years ago to take the political plunge.
“May justice and the rule of law prevail. Satyamev Jayate,” Mr. Suman added rhetorically, avoiding the name of Anand Mohan, whose release has sparked protests from relatives and well-wishers of slain IAS officer G. Krishnaja.
Krishnaiah, who is from Telangana, was beaten to death by a mob in 1994 when he tried to overtake a funeral procession in Muzaffarpur district with his vehicle.
Mr. Mohan, who was Mahishi’s incumbent MLA, led the procession which was expelled after the death of his close associate Chhotan Shukla, another feared gangster who fell to the bullets of his rivals before realizing his political ambitions.
Notably, Mr. Suman is widely remembered for his tenure as the Municipal Commissioner of Patna. He was charged with the massive flooding in the city in 2019, after a few days of heavy rain.
The 2004 IRS officer was given notice of the cause of the show well after his service ended and he responded by claiming that his senior officials, including Chief Minister Nitish Kumar himself, shared the blame for the devastation that hit the capital. of the state was created.
Mr. Suman is associated with the Plurals Party, founded and led by Pushpam Priya Choudhary, an intriguing figure about whom little is known except that her father used to be an MLC of Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and in 2020 she will be named as the ” chief ministerial candidate” of her young outfit.
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