Mahendra Hembram was released for good behaviour from Odisha's Keonjhar jail after 25 years on 16 April. He was arrested for the murder of an Australian missionary, Graham Staines, and his sons in January 1999.
Hembram, who was 25 at that time, was a member of a mob led by Dara Singh who attacked Graham Staines and his two sons — 11-year-old Philip and 8-year-old Timothy — while they slept in their station wagon and then set the vehicle on fire in Manoharpur village of Keonjhar district on the intervening night of January 22-23, 1999.
Between 1999 and 2000, a total of 51 people were arrested in connection with the case. Of them, 37 were acquitted during the initial trial.
Fourteen individuals, including Dara Singh and Hembram, were convicted by a designated Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court. Later, the Orissa High Court acquitted 11 more.
Hembram, who is now 50, was released from Odisha라이브 바카라 Keonjhar jail, 200 km from here, on the grounds of “good behaviour” on Wednesday.
His release was recommended by the Odisha State Sentence Review Board, and the jail authorities maintained that it was carried out in accordance with the law
A Bench of Justices Manoj Misra and K.V. Viswanathan gave the State government six weeks to decide the convict라이브 바카라 plea for remission and report back to the apex court.
As per reports by The Hindu, 'Sixty-one-year-old Singh said he has suffered 24 years of incarceration without remission and truly regretted his actions committed in a fit of “youthful rage”, which he blamed on bad karma
"In the fervor of youth, fueled by impassioned reactions to the brutal history of India, the petitioner라이브 바카라 psyche momentarily lost restraint,” his plea said.
He promised to “give back to society” through “service-oriented actions”. He submitted that he had undergone more than the qualified period of sentence of 14 years under the April 19, 2022, remission policy in Odisha.
“The petitioner was never released on parole, even when his mother passed away. He could not perform her last rites,” he submitted.
He was garlanded upon his release, as his supporters raised slogans of “Jai Shri Ram
