Murdered IAS officer G Krishnaiah's wife moves SC against release of Bihar ex-MP Anand Mohan Singh

Uma Krishnaiah moved the Supreme Court and filed a petition before it challenging the Bihar government's recent decision to release Anand Mohan.

Anand Mohan was convicted of murdering Krishnaiah in 1994 and was released after serving more than 14 years in jail, as the Bihar government recently in a notification ordered his release from jail.

Uma Krishnaiah in her petition said that the Bihar government's notification to release Anand Mohan was "not a good decision".

"It is submitted that it is a well-settled principle of law that Imprisonment for life means the full natural course of Life and cannot be mechanically interpreted to be 14 years. It means that imprisonment for life lasts until the last breath," Uma's petition said.

"That it is settled law that the sentence of imprisonment for life given to a convict as a substitute for the death sentence must be viewed differently and segregated from the ordinary life imprisonment given as the sentence of first choice," the petition filed before the Supreme Court said.

Anand Mohan, one of the convicts in the 1994 murder case of then Gopalganj DM G. Krishnaiah, was released from jail on Thursday morning following a change in Bihar prison rules.

The former Lok Sabha Parliamentarian, Anand Singh, now 75, was convicted in the 1994 murder of Gopalganj District Magistrate (DM) G Krishnaiah.

Anand Singh was released from Saharsa jail, on Thursday morning.

Krishanaiah, a 1985 batch IAS officer, was only 37 years old when he was killed in Muzaffarpur, Bihar in 1994, by a mob led by a few politicians, including Anand Singh.

Anand Singh was sentenced to death in 2007 by the Patna High Court. The sentence was, however, reduced to rigorous life imprisonment in 2008 by the Supreme Court.

In the year 2012, Anand Mohan Singh appealed to the Supreme Court to reduce the sentence, which was rejected by the court. Since then, he is lodged in jail.

(With UNI inputs)