SUSHIL SHARMA (TANDOOR KAND)

The bench observed that “the life and liberty of an individual is of paramount consideration” and added: “We need to know how and why you can keep someone in custody indefinitely.”
“The Principal Secretary (Home), GNCTD as well as the Law Secretary are requested to remain present before this court on the next date of hearing so as to assist the court on the determination of these proceedings,” the bench said. Advocate Amit Sahni, who filed the petition on behalf of Sharma, said the convict has been in jail for the last 29 years and was entitled to premature release in as per the guidelines of the Sentence Review Board (SRB).

The Delhi High Court today asked the Tihar jail authorities to produce the minutes of meeting of the Sentence Review Board in which former Congress youth leader Sushil Kumar Sharma’s plea for premature release was taken up for consideration.

1995 Tandoor murder case: Convict seeks parole, Delhi HC seeks response from govt - Congress leader Sushil Sharma is undergoing life term in the sensational murder case. "Respondent (state) has failed to appreciate that the petitioner (Sharma) has already undergone more than 20 years in custody and six months have already elapsed from the date of termination of the previous parole," the application, filed through advocate Amit Sahni, said.

Congress leader Sushil Sharma had shot his wife Naina Sahni with his licensed revolver on the night of July 2, 1995, taken her body to a restaurant, chopped it into pieces and tried to burn them in the restaurant’s oven.
“Respondent (state) has failed to appreciate that the petitioner (Sharma) has already undergone more than 20 years in custody and six months have already elapsed from the date of termination of the previous parole,” the application, filed through advocate Amit Sahni, said

Former youth Congress leader Sushil Sharma, who is undergoing life term in the sensational murder case of his wife Naina Sahni, was on Wednesday granted three weeks parole by the Delhi High Court.
The convict in his plea filed through advocate Amit Sahni had also challenged November 28 last year's order of the Delhi government rejecting his application for regular parole.

Former youth Congress leader Sushil Sharma, who is undergoing life term in the sensational murder case of his wife Naina Sahni, was today granted three weeks parole by the Delhi High Court.
The convict in his plea filed through advocate Amit Sahni had also challenged November 28 last year's order of the Delhi government rejecting his application for regular parole.

Former youth Congress leader Sushil Sharma, who is undergoing life term in the sensational murder case of his wife Naina Sahni, was today granted three weeks parole by the Delhi High Court. The convict in his plea filed through advocate Amit Sahni had also challenged November 28 last year's order of the Delhi government rejecting his application for regular parole.

Former youth Congress leader Sushil Sharma, who is undergoing life term in the sensational murder case of his wife Naina Sahni, was today granted three weeks parole by the Delhi High Court.The convict in his plea filed through advocate Amit Sahni had also challenged November 28 last year's order of the Delhi government rejecting his application for regular parole.

The convict had killed his wife with a licensed revolver, chopped her body up and tried to burn those at the restaurant oven. The convict in his plea filed through advocate Amit Sahni had also challenged November 28 last year's order of the Delhi government rejecting his application for regular parole.

Sharmas counsel Amit Sahni moved the court for premature release, claiming that their client has spent over 25 years in jail, which is the maximum prescribed punishment as per the Sentence Review Board guidelines.

In 2003, a city court awarded him death sentence which was later upheld by the Delhi High Court in 2007. In 2013, the SC commuted his death sentence stating that there was “no evidence” of Sharma chopping his wife’s body.
The court’s remarks come while hearing a habeas corpus plea filed by Sharma through advocate Amit Sahni who had alleged that Sharma’s incarceration was illegal.

Sharma, who is in prison since 1995, has contended that he has already undergone the maximum prescribed sentence as mandated under the SRB guidelines.Advocate Amit Sahni, appearing for Sharma, said the guidelines on premature release state that life convicts sentenced for a single offence are to be released after completion of 20 years of incarceration and those who had committed heinous crimes are to be granted the relief after 25 years.Delhi government standing counsel (criminal) Rahul Mehra said the LG, who is the competent authority to decide the pre-mature release of convicts, had accepted the SRB recommendations not to release Sharma and all records were put before him.

The Delhi High Court Friday ordered ‘forthwith’ release of former youth Congress leader Sushil Kumar Sharma, serving life term for the murder of his wife Naina Sahni in 1995.
Advocate Amit Sahni, appearing for Sharma, had said that guidelines on premature release state that life convicts sentenced for a single offence are to be released after completion of 20 years of incarceration and those who had committed heinous crimes are to be granted the relief after 25 years.

A bench of Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal said it was concerned over the human rights of the prisoner, and called the issue very serious.
Advocate Amit Sahni, appearing for Sharma, said guidelines on premature release state that life convicts sentenced for a single offence are to be released after completion of 20 years of incarceration and those who had committed heinous crimes are to be granted relief after 25 years.

Advocate Amit Sahni, appearing for Sharma, said guidelines on premature release state that life convicts sentenced for a single offence are to be released after completion of 20 years of incarceration and those who had committed heinous crimes are to be granted the relief after 25 years.

The Delhi High Court Tuesday asked whether a person could be allowed to be kept in jail indefinitely for the offence of murder even if he has already served the sentence.
Advocate Amit Sahni, appearing for Sharma, said the guidelines on premature release state that life convicts sentenced for a single offence are to be released after completion of 20 years of incarceration and those who had committed heinous crimes are to be granted the relief after 25 years.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought to know whether a person can be kept in jail indefinitely for committing a murder, even if he has alreaday served the sentence. Sharma’s advocate Amit Sahni told the court that Sharma is in prison since 1995 and he has already undergone the maximum prescribed sentence as mandated under the guidelines.

Sharma had appealed against the lower court verdict of 2003 in the Delhi High Court but received a setback as the High Court upheld the lower court’s death sentence.
Advocate Amit Sahni, appearing for Sharma, had said guidelines on premature release state that life convicts sentenced for a single offence are to be released after completion of 20 years of incarceration and those who had committed heinous crimes are to be granted the relief after 25 years. In his petition, Sharma contended even though his case falls in the first category, he had also undergone 29 years of incarceration, with remission, and 23 years and six months, without remission.

The Delhi High Court ordered ‘forthwith’ the release of former youth Congress leader Sushil Kumar Sharma, who was convicted in the ‘tandoor’ murder case.
Advocate Amit Sahni, appearing for Sharma, had said that guidelines on premature release state that life convicts sentenced for a single offence are to be released after completion of 20 years of incarceration and those who had committed heinous crimes are to be granted the relief after 25 years.

Sharma has already undergone over two decades of incarceration in the case. Advocate Amit Sahni, appearing for Sharma, had said that guidelines on premature release state that life convicts sentenced for a single offence are to be released after completion of 20 years of incarceration and those who had committed heinous crimes are to be granted the relief after 25 years.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought to know whether a person can be kept in jail indefinitely for committing a murder, even if he has alreaday served the sentence. Sharma's advocate Amit Sahni told the court that Sharma is in prison since 1995 and he has already undergone the maximum prescribed sentence as mandated under the guidelines.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought to know whether a person can be kept in jail indefinitely for committing a murder, even if he has alreaday served the sentence.
Sharma's advocate Amit Sahni told the court that Sharma is in prison since 1995 and he has already undergone the maximum prescribed sentence as mandated under the guidelines.The Delhi government told the court that the Lieutenant General is the competent authority to decide the pre-mature release of convicts and he had accepted the Sentence Review Board's recommendations not to release Sharma.Congress worker Naina Sahni was murdered on July 2, 1995, night. Her husband and Congress leader Sushil Sharma shot her, chopped up her body and tried to dispose it of in the tandoor of a restaurant, the Delhi Police alleged.

The court raised the query while hearing a plea by former youth Congress leader Sushil Kumar Sharma, serving life term in the 1995 murder of his wife Naina Sahni, seeking release after having undergone 29 years of incarceration. Advocate Amit Sahni, appearing for Sharma, said the guidelines on premature release state that life convicts sentenced for a single offence are to be released after completion of 20 years of incarceration and those who had committed heinous crimes are to be granted the relief after 25 years.

Sharma has already undergone over two decades of incarceration in the case. A bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal passed the order.
Advocate Amit Sahni, appearing for Sharma, had said that guidelines on premature release state that life convicts sentenced for a single offence are to be released after completion of 20 years of incarceration and those who had committed heinous crimes are to be granted the relief after 25 years.

The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered “forthwith” release of former Youth Congress leader Sushil Kumar Sharma, serving life term for the murder of his wife Naina Sahni in 1995. Advocate Amit Sahni, representing Sharma, had said that guidelines on premature release state that life convicts sentenced for a single offence are to be released after completion of 20 years of incarceration and those who had committed heinous crimes are to be granted the relief after 25 years.

The high court set aside and quashed the recommendations of the sentence review board (SRB) which had rejected Sharma’s representation for pre-mature release.
Advocate Amit Sahni, representing Sharma, had said that guidelines on premature release state that life convicts sentenced for a single offence are to be released after completion of 20 years of incarceration and those who had committed heinous crimes are to be granted the relief after 25 years.

The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered the immediate release of former Youth Congress leader Sushil Kumar Sharma, who is serving a life term in the 1995 murder of his wife Naina Sahni. Sharma's advocate Amit Sahni told the court that Sharma is in prison since 1995 and has already undergone the maximum prescribed sentence.