HC questions SRB approach in Priyadarshini Mattoo  case convict’s premature release plea

The Delhi High Court connected Thursday said the Sentence Review Board (SRB) appears to beryllium driven by “public perception” erstwhile deciding connected the premature merchandise of convicts while proceeding a plea by Santosh Kumar Singh, the beingness convict successful the 1996 Priyadarshini Mattoo rape and execution case.

Mattoo, 25, was raped and murdered successful January 1996. Singh, a instrumentality pupil at Delhi University, was acquitted by the proceedings tribunal connected December 3, 1999, but the Delhi High Court reversed the determination connected October 27, 2006, and awarded him the decease penalty.