By Omar Rashid
New Delhi: The Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government has ordered the premature release of Uday Bhan Karwariya, a former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA and an influential leader from Prayagraj, who was convicted in 2019, along with his two brothers, for the murder of a former Samajwadi Party legislator.
The decision to set 55-year-old Karwariya free comes less than a year after the government allowed the early release of former cabinet minister Amarmani Tripathi and his wife Madhumani, who were serving life imprisonment for the murder of poetess Madhumita Shukla, with whom Amarmani was alleged to have had an intimate relationship. Both Tripathi and Karwariya belong to the dominant Hindu Brahmin community.
On July 19, the UP Prisons Administration and Reforms Services department issued an order stating that Karwariya could be released from jail if no other case was pending against him, and after submitting two sureties to the satisfaction of the district police chief and district magistrate.
Karwariya is lodged in Naini Central jail in Prayagraj. He was elected as a BJP MLA twice from the Bara constituency in Prayagraj (then Allahabad), in 2002 and 2007. In 2012, he had contested from Allahabad North but lost.
The UP Prisons Administration and Reforms Services department said Karwariya had spent eight years, nine months and 11 days in jail till July 30, 2023. The recommendation of the district police chief and district magistrate for his premature release, his “good behaviour” in jail and the recommendation of the mercy petition committee, were cited as reasons for the remission of Karwariya’s jail term, according to the order signed by department joint secretary Krishna Kumar Singh.
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