The Supreme Court has recently released a person who was in jail for almost 25 years. The Supreme Court found that he was a minor when he committed the crime and the fact that he was a minor was not accepted from the district court to the Supreme Court. He was earlier given death sentence but the President commuted it to life imprisonment. Now after finding out the truth about his age, he has got freedom. In Uttar Pradesh, the police have found a person for whose murder four people have already been jailed.
Fought for justice from High Court to President
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (January 8, 2025) released a man named Om Prakash after nearly 25 years in jail. released Have done. Om Prakash was sentenced to jail in 1994 for murdering his boss and his family. Om Prakash was caught by the police in 2001. He told that in 2001 he was 20 years old. In this case, the lower court had sentenced him as an adult. The lower court had sentenced him to death. The High Court also upheld his punishment. However, Omprakash claimed that he was a minor.
After this, the Supreme Court also upheld his punishment and did not accept the claim of being a minor. His reconsideration petition was also rejected. The matter did not stop here. Om Prakash then filed a mercy petition with the President in this matter. Here also his petition was rejected. When he petitioned the President for the second time, his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he would not be released until he was 60 years old.
Tired and defeated, Omprakash again approached the Supreme Court with the claim of a minor, but this time the court refused to take his case. In 2019, he again approached the High Court on the grounds that he was a minor, but the petition was rejected. Meanwhile, a test of his bones was done which revealed that he would have been around 14 years old at the time of the incident. After this, in the hearing held in the Supreme Court, he was ordered to be released on January 7, 2025.
The Supreme Court said, “This is a case in which the person is suffering because of the mistake of going to the court. We are told that his conduct in jail has been normal and there is no report against him. He lost the opportunity to reintegrate into society. The time he has lost can never be recovered through no fault of his.” After being caught and sentenced in 2001, Om Prakash claimed that he was a minor in front of different courts 7-8 times, but due to a mistake in the system, he was released after 25 years. Justice found.
4 jailed for murder, he found alive
Only Om Prakash suffers loss due to system failure No Actually, in Bihar also 4 people became victims of this. A man from Bihar was recently spotted by Uttar Pradesh Police during night patrolling in Jhansi. During police interrogation, it was revealed that this person Nathuni Pal is a resident of Deoria, Bihar and he has been living at different places in Uttar Pradesh for the last one and a half decade. When the police took information from the local police station, they came to know that four people were facing trial in Bihar for the murder of the person whom they had found.
This case was filed against Nathuni Pal’s uncle and three cousins only. The case was filed by Nathuni Pal’s maternal uncle. All four people have also spent 8 months in jail in this case. Right now he is out on bail. Now after this news he has expressed happiness over the stain of murder being washed away. The police at both the places are now busy taking further action regarding the matter.
