Anand Mohan walks out of jail after controversial Bihar prison rule change

Days after the Nitish Kumar government amended the Prison Manual rules which cleared the path for his release, gangster-turned-politician Anand Mohan Singh walked out of Sahars jail early on Thursday morning.

The Bihar government in a notification issued on April 24 ordered the release of 27 people, including Mohan, all of whom have spent 14 years or more in jail.

Photo Credit: Anand Mohan Singh

Mohan was serving a life sentence in the 1994 murder of then Gopalganj District Magistrate G Krishnaiah.

Speaking to reporters, IAS officer G Krishnaiah's daughter said it was disheartening to know that Anand Mohan Singh was being released from jail.

"The government should reconsider this decision. I request Nitish Kumar ji to give a second thought to this decision. With this decision, his government has set a wrong example. It is unfair not just to a family but to the whole nation. We will appeal against this decision," she was quoted saying by news agency ANI.

"Public will protest against the release of Anand Mohan, demanding to send him back to jail. Releasing him is a wrong decision. CM should not encourage these types of things. If he (Anand Mohan) will contest elections in the future the public should boycott him," said Uma Devi, wife of the then Gopalganj DM (Bihar), G Krishnaiah.

"I appeal to the President and the PM to intervene in this matter and ask CM Nitish Kumar to send him (Anand Mohan) back to jail...," she added.

Meanwhile, the Indian Civil and Administrative Service (Central) Association has expressed its 'deep dismay' at the decision and termed it as 'tantamounted to denial of justice'.

"The Central IAS Association expresses its deep dismay at the decision of the state government of Bihar to release the convicts of the brutal killing of G Krishnaiah, IAS, former district magistrate of Gopalganj, by a change in classification rules of prisoners," the statement said.

Mohan, who has been out on parole, got the news of his release as he was attending his son's engagement ceremony in Patna on Monday (April 24).

The BJP criticised the move by the Bihar government, linking it to the RJD, the party to which the jailed politician's son belongs, being in power.

with agency inputs