Rape Convicts Not to be Granted Parole: Maharashtra Government

This decision comes after the convict in the Pallavi Purkayastha murder case went missing while out on parole.

A file photo of an anti-rape protest. (Photo: PTI)

• The Maharashtra government has announced that parole will no longer be granted to prisoners convicted for serious offences such as rape, rape with murder and terror.
  
  
• This decision came after the convict in the Pallavi Purkayastha murder case absconded after being granted parole earlier this year. Sajjad Mogul was serving a life sentence at a Nashik prison when he asked for parole citing his mother’s illness.
  
  
• The jail superintendent, JS Naik, who granted his parole, was suspended after the incident. Naik was already facing a departmental inquiry for granting furlough to two persons who were convicted in terrorism-related charges, and had escaped while out on leave.
  

(With inputs from ANI.)