The Maharashtra government on Wednesday decided not to grant parole for jail inmates convicted under serious offences such as terror, rape, rape with murder, narcotics smuggling.
The new rules were announced in the aftermath of a convict in a gruesome murder case jumping parole from Nashik central jail.
Sajjad Mughal, a watchman convicted in 2013 for >the murder of Mumbai lawyer Pallavi Purkayastha in a central Mumbai highrise, was serving a life sentence at the Nashik jail. He was granted parole in February, and he absconded in March, exposing shocking lapses in the process of giving parole and furlough.
The State government had then suspended parole for all convicts briefly before framing new rules announced today.
