SC grants bail to 90-year-old man serving jail time period for culpable murder

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Monday granted bail to a 90-year-old man serving a jail time period for culpable murder not amounting to homicide, contemplating his well being situation owing to age.

The apex court docket additionally famous that the person has already undergone three years of the sentence.

“As regards the applicant-appellant number one (Achchey Lal), it is noticed that he is over 90 years and already undergone 3 (three) years of sentence period,” a bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and A S Oka mentioned.

“Considering his health condition owing to age coupled with the fact that he was on bail during the pendency of appeal before the high court without any adverse remark or report against him including his satisfactory conduct while in jail, in the interest of justice, it is ordered that, during the pendency of the appeal, applicant-appellant number one be released on bail to the satisfaction of the trial court…,” the bench mentioned.

The prime court docket is listening to the enchantment filed by the person towards the April 2020 verdict of the Allahabad High Court which had transformed the conviction of two accused, together with Lal, from the alleged offence of homicide underneath the Indian Penal Code to that of culpable murder not amounting to homicide.

The excessive court docket had diminished their sentence from life imprisonment to 12 years. Meanwhile, the apex court docket dismissed the bail utility filed by the one other appellant who has additionally challenged the excessive court docket verdict convicting him within the case.

The case pertains to the killing of two individuals in March 1996 in Uttar Pradesh following an altercation over grazing of cattle within the subject. A trial court docket had convicted six individuals within the case. Later, the excessive court docket had acquitted 4 of them.