Vijay Kumar, 45, who hails from Mathura (UP), was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2010 after being convicted in a double murder case registered at the Police Station Keshav Puram in Delhi. He was released on parole in 2021 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Supreme Court on Friday said that all prisoners, released on emergency parole by the state high-powered committees constituted on its order during the Covid pandemic, will have to surrender within 15 days.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim walked out of the Sunaria jail in Rohtak, Haryana, on Saturday after he was granted 40-day parole on Friday.
14 students were killed in the incident and three school staff members were killed, and several others were injured.
Douglas Kennedy was a toddler when his father was gunned down in 1968. He told a two-person board panel that he was moved to tears by Sirhan’s remorse and that the 77-year-old should be released if he’s not a threat to others.
He is also banned from returning to work at Samsung for five years under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Economic Crimes
The observation by the top court came on Tuesday while extending the parole of a Punjab based businessman accused in a drug racket case.
If an inmate has been convicted for less than five years and has already completed three months in jail, he or she is eligible for the emergency parole, the circular stated.
Last week, AG Perarivalan, another convicts in the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case was released on one month parole.
He was released from Vellore Central prison as he had applied for parole to meet his ailing father and also to attend a family wedding.
