The 1993 serial bomb blasts convicts, who have been awarded life imprisonment by the designated TADA court, will have to serve at least 60 years in jail and they cannot get the same concession as the other TADA convicts undergoing life sentence, the Maharashtra government told the Bombay High Court recently.
Four convicts in the 1993 blasts case - Niyaz Mohammad, Moin Qureshi, Ali Shaikh Umar and Salim Mira Shaikh alias Salim Kutta - had moved the High Court, seeking release. All of them have served the mandatory 14 years of their life sentence.
Advocate N N Gawankar, their lawyer, argued that according to the 1992 prison guidelines, they should be released after serving 30 years. But the government recently issued a notification saying that they would have to serve at least 60 years in jail.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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what about the ex post facto laws ?? if these ppl ahve already served teh required sentence how can a fresh order be passed increasin the term of imprisonment
ReplyDeleteAs per the government of Maharashtra the guidelines as to release of life convicts for TADA, POTA, MCOCA cases are yet to be framed, and 1992 guidelines would not apply to them.
ReplyDeleteMoreover the 1993 blast convicts ‘are not at par with other convicts under TADA’. Their act affected the national security’.
However, a Division Bench of Justices Ranjana Desai and Mrudula Bhatkar have granted permission to the petitioners advocate to amend the petition in view of the argument made by Advocate General and adjourned the hearing till February 22.
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