The Court noted that the State failed to provide material that the convict is beyond rehabilitation and reformation, which was a mitigating circumstance in favour of the convict.
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday commuted the death sentence awarded to a convict by the trial court in a double murder case to life imprisonment without remission for a period of 40 years from.
In the plea, Anand’s lover Neetha claimed that she would be married off to someone else and, therefore, he should be released on parole to marry her. , India News, Times Now
While the government contended that parole can be granted only if a person has to attend a marriage or perform it, the High Court said that this was an “extraordinary circumstance” so parole was granted.