Indian Express: THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:
Friday, March 24, 2017.
If popular
sentiment was a parameter in deciding the quantum of punishment, they would not
have come out of the prison. Ever. But the
Kerala Government’s list for special remission, submitted to Governor P
Sathasivam, contained 11 convicts in the T P Chandrasekharan murder case and
controversial businessman Mohammed Nisham.
The names
came up through a Right to Information (RTI) reply given by the Prisons
Department, caused major embarrassment to the state government. The RTI reply
said the list was forwarded to the government for special remission on the
occasion of the 60th anniversary of Kerala’s formation (Nov 1, 2016). But the
Governor had sent back the list seeking more clarification.
Notorious 11
TP murder
case convicts: M C Anoop (1st accused), Manoj Kumar aka Kirmani Manoj (2nd
accused), N K Sunil Kumar aka Kodi Suni (3rd accused), T K Rajeesh (4th
accused), K K Mohammed Shafi (5th accused), Annan Shijith (6th accused), K
Shinoj (7th accused), K C Ramachandran (8th accused), CPM Kunnummakkara local
committee member Manojan aka Trouser Manojan (11th accused), former CPM branch
secretary, Kadanganpoyil, P K Kunhanandan (13th accused) and CPM Panur area
committee member P V Rafeeque (18th accused).
· Mohammed Nisham
The beedi tycoon is
serving life term for killing the security guard of his apartment,
Chandrabose.
· Manichan
The key accused in the
Kalluvathukkal hooch tragedy
· Sherin
She is convicted in the murder case of
her father-in-law
The list
The
government prepared the final remission list of 1,850 from 2,262 names prepared
by a five-member committee chaired by DGP (Prisons). But the Governor had sent
back the list seeking more clarification.
The
government plan was to grant one-year remission to those undergoing
life term,
five months to those serving five to 10 years, four months to those having two
to five years term, three months for jail period of one to two years, two
months for six months to one year term and a month for those serving three to
six months in jail.
Amid the
raging controversy over the LDF Government’s move to grant remission to the
convicts serving time in some of the most sensational cases, the CPM state
leadership has flatly denied the charges.Besides, it passed the buck to the
rival UDF camp, saying the list had been drawn up by the previous Congress-led
Government.