- 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.)
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