The Supreme Court docket at the moment ordered untimely launch of a 105-year previous life convict, Rasik Chandra Mondal, after confirming his interim bail/parole in a 1988 homicide case.
A bench of CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana handed the order.
Mondal was booked by West Bengal police in 1988 for the offenses underneath Sections 143, 448, 302 and 324 of IPC. On December 12, 1994, he was convicted underneath Part 302. In 2018, the Calcutta Excessive Court docket dismissed his enchantment in opposition to conviction. He approached the Supreme Court docket as effectively, however the plea was dismissed.
Mondal approached the Supreme Court docket for untimely launch in 2020 when he was 99 years previous. In 2024, the Court docket granted him interim bail/parole in the course of the pendency of the petition (on phrases and situations to be mounted by the trial courtroom).
At present, having regard to Mondal’s age, the Supreme Court docket discovered no justification for not releasing him prematurely even when he had not accomplished his whole sentence.
Case :RASIK CHANDRA MONDAL v. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL, W.P.(Crl.) No. 313/2020
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