Express News Service
KOCHI: If anybody nonetheless doubts the velocity at which papers transfer in authorities places of work, right here’s one other basic instance. The Kerala authorities not too long ago dismissed a request to repeal the life imprisonment of a 37-year-old Angamaly girl convicted in a 2016 case of killing her eight-year-old son.
But there is a twist: A division bench of the Kerala High Court had acquitted Teena Baiju of the fees in February. Simply put, the federal government is unaware of this even two months after the court docket order.
It was on February 16 this yr {that a} division bench comprising Justice Ok Vinod Chandran and Justice C Jayachandran acquitted Teena on her attraction petition.
On April 29, nonetheless, the Kerala Government Order (GO) issued by the house division acknowledged that the request for remission of the sentence as per Section 131 of Kerala Criminal Rules of Practice by Teena has been rejected. She had been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Ernakulam Additional District and Sessions Court on November 20, 2020, after convicting her of homicide and try to commit suicide.
The incident associated to the case occurred on April 30, 2016. Following a home discord together with her husband, Teena administered 5 sleeping drugs to her son. Later, she reduce the vein on her proper wrist and consumed a pesticide to die by suicide. During trial, the court docket noticed that Teena’s husband used to torture her after consuming alcohol.
When Teena filed an attraction towards the Additional Sessions Court verdict on the High Court, she additionally sought a provision for remission of the sentence. Based on it, the federal government sought stories from the authorities involved together with the district probation officer, Ernakulam.
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The probation officer, in his letter to the house division on November 29, 2021, favoured her launch claiming Teena’s husband Baiju is prepared to simply accept her again. However, the Ernakulam Rural SP, in his report dated December 3, 2021, stated granting remission to Teena will ship out a fallacious message to society.
The Director-General of Prisons and Correctional Services reported on December 8, 2021, that Teena accomplished 9 months and 17 days in Viyyur Central Prison and that her conduct and character had been good. But regardless of the stories, the federal government determined to concern the GO rejecting remission of her sentence.
Though stories on this regard got to the house division by December 2021, no choice was taken. In between, the court docket thought-about Teena’s attraction and acquitted her after discovering flaws within the trial court docket’s proceedings on February 16.
“Maybe the government was not aware that Teena was already acquitted by the High Court. When the appeal was under consideration, the matter of remission was taken up by the government. The current order dismissing the remission request will have no impact as she has been acquitted,” stated advocate P Ok Varghese who appeared for Teena on the High Court.
