23/01/2017

President commutes death sentence of four Maoists to life term





Patna,(BiharTimes): Setting aside Union home ministry’s recommendation President Pranab Mukherjee has commuted the death sentence of four Maoists, convicted for killing 34 Bhumihars, a landed upper caste, at Bara village in Gaya district of Bihar on February 12, 1992.

The President commuted death sentence of Krishna Mochi, Nanhe Lal Mochi, Bir Kuer Paswan and Dharmendra Singh alias Dharu Singh to life imprisonment.

The Union home ministry, based on the recommendations of the Bihar government, had recommended on August 8, 2016 that the mercy petition of all the four be rejected.

The President, however, took into consideration various facts relating to the case, including the delay in handing over the mercy petitions of the four accused by the state government and the observations made by the National Human Rights Commission.

It needs to be mentioned that the NHRC, in its order last year, had said after an analysis of the facts and materials placed before the commission, it emerges that the four convicts in question had submitted their mercy petitions prior to July 7, 2004. This is clear from the admission of the IG (Prisons), government of Bihar that the mercy petitions of the four convicts were forwarded to the secretariat of Hon'ble President of India through the home department, government of Bihar, vide letter dated 07.07.2004.

 

 

 

 

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