President Pranab Mukherjee commutes death sentence of four convicts

New Delhi: In a rare gesture, President Pranab Mukherjee has set aside Union Home Ministry’s recommendation and commuted the death sentence of four persons convicted of killing of 34 upper caste people in Bihar in 1992.

The President gave a new lease of life on the New Year day to Krishna Mochi, Nanhe Lal Mochi, Bir Kuer Paswan and Dharmendra Singh alias Dharu Singh, by commuting their death sentence to life imprisonment.

The Home Ministry, based on the recommendations of the Bihar Government, had recommended on August 8, 2016 that the mercy petition of all the four be rejected.