On February 6, the Supreme Court asked Mohan — the gangster-turned-politician of Bihar — to surrender his passport and asked the Centre to make its stand clear on his premature release issue.
The top court had also the former MP to record his presence every fortnight at the local police station. Upon his conviction in the murder case in 1994, Mohan was released after serving more than 14 years in jail, as the Bihar government had, in its notification, ordered to free him.
Terming the notification “not a good decision”, Uma Krishnaiah in her plea said, “It is submitted that it is a well-settled principle of law that Imprisonment for life means 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 read.
Krishanaiah, a 1985 batch IAS officer, was only 37 years old when he was killed in Muzaffarpur by a mob led by a few politicians, including Mohan.
