DC Edit | Bihar ex-MP remission unwise

The very rationale for a legal delivery system and rule of law is that people who have been wronged could display a skewed sense of justice which can be retributive in nature. Hence the sight of former Member of Parliament Anand Mohan, convicted for the murder of a district magistrate in Bihar and walking out of jail after serving a period of 16 years, is disturbing for a lot of people. The Bihar government last month amended the prison manual, excising the clause “murder of a public servant on duty” from the list of cases for which it could not consider remission of jail term. The two actions clearly benefited Anand Mohan, forcing the officer’s wife to move the Supreme Court seeking a cancellation of the remission. It was not long ago the Gujarat government released 11 persons convicted for gangrape and mass murder during the 2002 Gujarat riots saying they completed 14 years in jail and their “behaviour was found to be good”.