Indo-Asian News Service

New Delhi

The wife of IAS officer G. Krishnaiah, who was lynched in 1994 by a mob led by former Bihar MP Anand Mohan Singh, has moved the Supreme Court against the latter’s premature release from prison.

The plea filed by Uma Krishnaiah, the wife of G. Krishnaiah, contended that life imprisonment awarded as a substitute for death penalty has to be carried out strictly as directed by the court, and it would be beyond application of remission.

The plea submitted that life imprisonment handed down to the gangster-turned-politician meant incarceration for his entire natural course of life. Anand Mohan was released from the Saharsa jail on Thursday morning following an amendment in Bihar’s prison rules.

In 1994, Krishnaiah, then District Magistrate of Gopalganj, who hailed from Telangana, was beaten to death by a mob when his vehicle tried to overtake the funeral procession of gangster

Chhotan Shukla. The mob was reportedly instigated by Anand Mohan.

Under fire over the release of Anand Mohan, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had claimed during an event on Friday evening that the decision was based on the Centre’s ‘Model Prison Manual 2016’. While referring to a book he carried with him, Nitish Kumar said, “This is a book on Model Prison Manual 2016. Please go through it and tell me whether any provision says that if an IAS officer gets killed, the convict will have to stay in jail for his entire life. There is no such law in any state of the country. Hence, we have removed it in Bihar,” he added.

He also asked if there is any difference in law required for common people and a government official. “Though 27 inmates have been released, why is it that only one person’s release is being opposed?” he asked.